From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 15 15:30:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA24228 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 15:30:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from send1a.yahoomail.com (send1a.yahoomail.com [205.180.60.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA24129 for ; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 15:29:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rgireyev@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <19980115232936.3116.rocketmail@send1a.yahoomail.com> Received: from [156.153.255.218] by send1a; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 15:29:36 PST Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 15:29:36 -0800 (PST) From: Rudy Gireyev Subject: Re: install on 2 HD's To: steve howe , questions@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk ---steve howe wrote: > > > 2.2.5 ... 166 K6 (I586 ... ?). I thought it was I686 for K6 class > > i have 2 HD's. primary #1 has a mini DOS partition, > and i want to put "/" on it also. i want /usr, /var, > and swap on primary #2. however, when i boot, i get > the errors (custom install of bin only): Would you be willing to put a small DOS partition on the second drive and trying to install again? I've heard that that works. > > modload: exec(/usr/bin/ld) no such file > msdos vfsload (msdos) operation not permitted > > i end up at a single user prompt. > it has something to do with the line > "mount -a -t nonfs" in /etc/rc. fstab appears ok. > i have no problems when all partitions are on the > same drive, or when i stick BSD completely on a > second drive. i can say "mount /usr", etc, at > the prompt, and the partitions mount just fine. > but i cannot say "mount -a" (errors as above). > ------------------------------------------------- > > i also had problems getting rid of a > > Boot: F1 F2 F5 > > prompt. i don't know if this is related to the > problem above. i dedicate ALL of the second disk > to BSD, double checked my geometry, and tried not > to choose and MBR on the second disk (whether or > not i got to choose seemed to vary from install > to install - sometimes i could choose, somethimes not.) > > anyway, no matter what options i used, i couldn't get > rid of the same F1 F2 F5. F5 would hang with > "no bootable partition" or some such thing, > though F1 and F2 work as expected. > ------------------------------------------------- > FingerPrint BA09868C 1B995204 58410FD3 A5E7B2DA > ------------------------------------------------- > > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com