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Date:      Sat, 22 Jan 2000 15:59:32 -0500 (EST)
From:      Marwan Fayed <s0121430@cs.laurentian.ca>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: disappearing mount points after install 
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.10.10001221558290.11371-100000@altair.cs.laurentian.ca>

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(The following is forwarded from freebsd-mobile)

FreeBSD loader does not start up, nor does the kernel (obviously). The
error message I get back is literally translated as "No O.S."

As for a disk parameter translation I cannot say for sure because IBM (as
wretched as they can be) does not allow users into the BIOS... at least
not on this model. What I can tell you is that while installing (before
the main menu) when my system is being scanned for devices, my hard drive
geomtry shows up as follows:

C/H/S: 1578/16/63

However, the slice and label editors, linux (when i succeeded in
installing it), and all tests i perform in DOS all report the following:

C/H/S: 789/32/63

I have tried both and neither work. Further, I just tried writing label
info from sysinstall running of the fixit disk (as recommended), and that
doesn't work either.

I think I'll have to offer to buy dinner for whoever is able to solve this
one! :-)

Marwan


On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Boris Karnaukh wrote:

> Marwan Fayed wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> Did FreeBSD loader and/or kernel start up?
> 
> Have you tested your computer for some kind of disk parameters
> translation in BIOS setup?
> 
> I have had similar experience with Toshiba Satellite 2500CDS.
> 
>  
> > 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!
> > 
> 
> According to my experience, you should run /stand/sysinstall again after
> chosing "Fixit" option to make "w" option immediately work.
> 
> You'll possibly have to create additional devices /dev/wd0? using
> MAKEDEV script from "Fixit" disk.
> 
> -- 
> <Signed>
> Boris Karnaukh 	(mailto:bk532@iname.com)
> 




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