Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 18:45:25 +0100 From: Thierry Herbelot <herbelot@cybercable.fr> To: Marwan Fayed <s0121430@cs.laurentian.ca> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disappearing mount points after install Message-ID: <3889ECB5.9E75171B@cybercable.fr> References: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10001221217290.969-100000@eten-04.cs.laurentian.ca>
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Hello [-mobile trimmed] Marwan Fayed wrote: > > 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. This may be due to a faulty BIOS : some BIOSes do not like at all not having a DOS partition at the beginning of the disk (I have some HP PCs with just 20 Megs of FAT at the start of the disk to keep them booting - from <F2>, which is FreeBSD) > > 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 The mount points for each partition are recorded in /etc/fstab : what you are seeing is completely normal, as sysinstall has not read the fstab file from the root partition of your disk. > > 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! Try and leave a small DOS partition at the beginning of your disk, as said above. > > 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 :-) TfH > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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