Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 00:39:24 +0200 From: Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de> To: HarDBooT <hardbootpr@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.0 install problem Message-ID: <3934431C.1A60B570@i-clue.de> References: <LPBBLEPDDNONIMKLLIKAOECFCAAA.hardbootpr@hotmail.com>
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FreeBSD, as Winblows, wants to have its boot partition within the very first two Gig of any drive. It seems you experienced fdisk reporting the fact. To fix the problem, you have to change your disk layout: there should be at least some room for the root file system within the first two Gigs of your disk,. something like this: slice 0 (Dos partition 1) 1G Winblows slice 1 (Dos partition 2) 1G FreeBSD root slice 2 (Dos partition 3) some more room for FreeBSD slice 3 (Dos partition 4) extended DOS partition for Winblows alternatively, add another small disk, and install FreeBSD there. Unlike Winblows, FreeBSD boots happily from any disk on your system, given itrs root partition is to be found within the first two Gig. HTH -Christoph Sold HarDBooT wrote: > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4.0 on a AMD-K6 2 355Mhz 128 RAM > HD Geometry 1313 cyls 255 heads 63 sectors=21093345 (as reported by FDISK) > > Offset Size End Name PType Desc SubType Flags > 0 63 62 - 6 unused 0 > 63 4112577 412639 ad0s2 2 fat 12 #(2G > Win98) > 4112640 6152895 10265534 ados1 2 fat 12 #(3G > backup) > 10265535 10829889 21095423 - 6 unused 0 > #(5G > for FreeBSD) > > the problem is that after the "making a new filesystem on /dev/rad0s3a" > this message appear > > Unable to make a new root filesystem on /dev/rad0s3a! > Command returned status 36" > > What can I do to fix this? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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