From owner-freebsd-current Fri Nov 1 12:57:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C28437B401 for ; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 12:57:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from angelica.unixdaemons.com (angelica.unixdaemons.com [209.148.64.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B9A543E4A for ; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 12:57:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org) Received: from uk.FreeBSD.org (hitenp@pc1-nfds1-5-cust235.nott-b.cable.ntl.com [80.4.34.235]) (authenticated bits=0) by angelica.unixdaemons.com (8.12.5/8.12.1) with ESMTP id gA1Kur5N050641 for ; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 15:56:55 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: angelica.unixdaemons.com: Host hitenp@pc1-nfds1-5-cust235.nott-b.cable.ntl.com [80.4.34.235] claimed to be uk.FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <3DC2EA8C.6060107@uk.FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 20:56:44 +0000 From: Hiten Pandya Reply-To: hiten@unixdaemons.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Unsucessful with 5.0-CURRENT Installation on a 120G IDE HDD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi there. I tried installing the 5.0-CURRENT-20021028-JPSNAP ISO today, on my 120G harddrive, which is the second one on the system. Sysinstall failed to get the right geometry of the disk, even though the BIOS was in LBA mode. My 50G FreeBSD partition (ad1s3) as two partitions, 1000MB and a 128MB. The DOS partition (ad1s2) on the harddrive was just right, and nothing wrong it, but only the FreeBSD partitions messed up. I made a 8G partition on the front of the disk (ad1s1), in which I was planning to install FreeBSD. Now, I am not sure what the real cause is, i.e. why are we not allowed to install on an 8G partition on a 120G disk? It could be that I am doing something very wrong, but I would like to get to the bottom of this, as I lost about 15G worth of data, i.e. fdisk still shows that the partition is there, but fsck_ffs is not proceeding. This could be because of GEOM or something, but I am not sure, as I cannot try a non-GEOM sysinstall anyway. Also, is there a way I can get that 15G worth of data back, somehow, or do I just have to say bye-bye to it? All help will be appreciated. Cheers. -- Hiten hiten@unixdaemons.com, hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org, hiten@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message