Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 09:58:15 -0700 From: "Gary W. Swearingen" <garys@opusnet.com> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: misc/84084: FreeBSD 4.11-R won't install to 4th part of 2nd disk Message-ID: <newtne257c.tne@mail.opusnet.com> Resent-Message-ID: <200507251700.j6PH0TIj008568@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 84084 >Category: misc >Synopsis: FreeBSD 4.11-R won't install to 4th part of 2nd disk >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Mon Jul 25 17:00:29 GMT 2005 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Gary W. Swearingen >Release: FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE i386 >Organization: none >Environment: n/a >Description: (It DID install to the 2nd part.) I've tried to install 4.8-RELEASE and 4.11-RELEASE from ISO CD and 4.11-RELEASE from floppy and FTP and while it gives every indication of installing OK, the partition that I intended to install to is probably unchanged (I saw old OS there) and boot0 won't load it. I tried many times, using existing partitions and sub-partitions (just changing mount points from "none") and having sysinstall remove the partition and creating new sub-partitions, etc. I tried installing 5.4-RELEASE to the same partition and it worked OK. This was all on the ad2s4 partition. I have a ad0 and ad2, similar 80 GB drives each with 4 ~20 GB partitions. I tried installing 4.11-RELEASE to ad2s2 and it worked fine. I understand that it might not make sense to debug 4.x now for this kind of problem, but it sure gave me grief as I needed the smaller memory requirements of 4.x to build a picobsd firewall and I couldn't manage to cross-compile with the 4.x sources on my 5.4 system. I suspect that 4.x will be used for a long time like this. I'll leave my ad2s4 available for a while in case I'm asked to run more experiments on it. Oh, this is on a Gigabyte GA-K8NSC-939 with Athlon64 and 512MB RAM, and I used the i386 OSes, not the amd64s (if they exist). On a couple of my failed attempts, I got a "filesystem full" error soon after it started to load the distributions. I did a "df" in the emergency terminal and I don't understand what's going on there with the wierd mount points, etc., but I wondered if it was installing to only a memory filesytem. >How-To-Repeat: n/a >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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