From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 9 05:38:33 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F11A106566B for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 05:38:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A93968FC15 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 05:38:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au ([203.31.81.30]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o195cSAj052587 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Tue, 9 Feb 2010 16:08:28 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 16:08:16 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <4B70C1F8.8090809@pldrouin.net> <20100209022039.GE4648@cesium.hyperfine.info> <4B70C851.9010604@pldrouin.net> In-Reply-To: <4B70C851.9010604@pldrouin.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart5085511.ZW6pvqcdmh"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201002091608.24051.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -3.64 () ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: Pierre-Luc Drouin , "Peter C. Lai" Subject: Re: FreeBSD 8.0 i386 unable to boot... X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:38:33 -0000 --nextPart5085511.ZW6pvqcdmh Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: > After doing some more research, it seems that I am having the same > problem than described by this person: > http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=3D4502 So you get the same "file system full" message and then a panic about=20 init? > however I really don't understand why I would need to move partitions > around to allow the installer to even start? This machine has 2GB of > RAM which I guess should be plenty enough to start the installer > without swapping... The hard drive is a 80GB WD IDE drive. The > machine is not configured to use any RAID. It is pretty odd, I've installed FreeBSD on a laptop with 60Gb=20 partitions and FreeBSD was last yet it worked fine.. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart5085511.ZW6pvqcdmh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBLcPTP5ZPcIHs/zowRAqU0AJsG9K5mIUdA2+iQaqCWnQySOuxTZgCeOI3q D455p7ogmIpXgbbuD5Awx2E= =z4hX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart5085511.ZW6pvqcdmh--