Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 12:29:23 -0500 (EST) From: Marwan Fayed <s0121430@cs.laurentian.ca> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: disappearing mount points after install Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10001221217290.969-100000@eten-04.cs.laurentian.ca>
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Hello, I am a seasoned UNIX user but have been using freebsd for only about 6 months. I have posted this problem to freebsd-questions with no response so, figuring it must be a bug in the install program i'm going to try here. Oh, I would like to have traced the code to try to find the bug (if one exists) but being a senior year undergrad with a full course load and thesis, I have been left with little time... please forgive me. My problem is this. I am trying to install 3.3-R on an IBM Thinkpad 365XD (although I have received mail from a man in France who is having the same problem on a desktop). The installation runs completely smoothly but when I finish and reboot the machine reports no resident O.S. After trying many different things (including messing with the MBR, double and triple checking disk geometry, and using a Fixit disk to try to diagnose the problem), I booted from the install floppy to the main install menu. Rather than re-install all over again for the nth time I just entered the label editor. The partitions were still there but the mount points were lost. What appeared was this: <none> 40M // supposed to be root swap 84M // swap is obviously OK <none> 651M // supposed to be /usr This is clearly not what I designated so I tried relabelling the mount points, writing the information using 'w' and exiting install only to have the BIOS report no O.S. yet again! The machine is a P100,40M ram,810HD, standard PCI (as far as I have been able to tell/test). Has anyone encountered this or know the problem? Thanks a TON! Marwan :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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