From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Dec 5 12:34: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.thebiz.net (mx1.thebiz.net [216.238.0.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 025E837B446 for ; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 12:33:55 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 15304 invoked from network); 5 Dec 2001 15:33:53 -0500 Received: from unknown (172.16.0.72) by 172.16.0.178 with QMQP; 5 Dec 2001 15:33:53 -0500 Received: from unknown (HELO staff.noc.thebiz.net) (216.238.1.10) by mail.thebiz.net with SMTP; 5 Dec 2001 15:33:54 -0500 Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 15:33:54 -0500 (EST) From: "Thomas P. Holmes [ Systems ]" X-Sender: tholmes@staff.noc.thebiz.net To: Wilko Bulte Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disk slices In-Reply-To: <20011205213007.A5911@freebie.xs4all.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Yes my box boots and I was able to recompile the kernel. The df through me when I saw da0a da0e and not da0s1a da0s1e On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 03:25:47PM -0500, Thomas P. Holmes [ Systems ] wrote: > > > I've searched the archieve but I'm not 100% sure so I thought I would ask. > > > > I just did a fresh install of 4.4-Release throught the net using the > > floppy boot disks. When the drive was partitioned is created: > > > > /dev/da0a / > > /dev/da0b swap > > /dev/da0e /var > > /dev/da0f /usr > > > > Now I have a 4.3-RElease machine that I made world on to upgrade to > > 4.4-release and that is partitioned > > > > /dev/da0s1a / > > /dev/da0s1b swap > > /dev/da0s1e /var > > /dev/da0s1f /usr > > > > Did the "slicing" change from 4.3 to 4.4? > > > > So this is the message I found that was some what related, I just wanted > > to double check before I try to put this box into production. > > The mail from Drew explains why Theo's box did not want to boot. > Does your box boot? > > > > >> Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 12:55:52 -0400 (EDT) > > >> From: Andrew Gallatin > > >> To: Theo Purmer (Tepucom) > > >> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG > > >> Subject: Re: error booting after install on compaq ds20 > > >> Message-ID: <15218.49304.948837.16618@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> > > >> In-Reply-To: <200108080813.KAA33566@mail.tepucom.nl> > > >> References: <200108080813.KAA33566@mail.tepucom.nl> > > > > >> How did you lay out your disk paritions? FreeBSD's root (/) fs must be > > >> in the "a" partition, and the "a" partition must be the first one on > > >> the disk. Also, you must use a BSD disklabel and no fdisk slices (eg, > > >> root is /dev/da0a and not /dev/da0s1a). > > -- > | / o / /_ _ email: wilko@FreeBSD.org > |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, The Netherlands > > ________________ http://www.BiznessOnline.com ________________ Thomas Holmes Bizness Online Unix Systems Engineer Suite 1801 tholmes@thebiz.net 11 North Pearl St. (518) 533-6522 Albany, NY, 12207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message