From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 15 15:47:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA25892 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 15:47:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hotmail.com (F15.hotmail.com [207.82.250.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA25853 for ; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 15:46:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from un_x@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 25204 invoked by uid 0); 15 Jan 1998 23:46:27 -0000 Message-ID: <19980115234627.25203.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 146.63.13.147 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 15:46:26 PST X-Originating-IP: [146.63.13.147] From: "steve howe" To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, rgireyev@yahoo.com Subject: Re: install on 2 HD's Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 15:46:26 PST Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk >> 2.2.5 ... 166 K6 (I586 ... ?). >I thought it was I686 for K6 class actually, the I686 kernel bombed on the 166 K6. but I586 works fine. >> 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. no ;) but thanks ;) >> 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 >> ------------------------------------------------- >_________________________________________________________ >DO YOU YAHOO!? no, but i probably should - since MS bought out Hotmail ... >Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com