From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 10 16:14:34 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92D5616A4CE for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2004 16:14:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from bumble.loughton.me.uk (bumble.loughton.me.uk [81.2.68.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57AB443D31 for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2004 16:14:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from spam_if_you_want_to@yahoo.co.uk) Received: from bumble.loughton.me.uk (bumble.loughton.me.uk [81.2.68.146]) by bumble.loughton.me.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 457EC9A092 for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2004 17:14:32 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 17:14:32 +0100 (BST) From: Richard Smith To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: X-The-Matrix: has you MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: unattended install of FreeBSD 5.2.1 does not umount disk properly X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 16:14:34 -0000 I'm trying to do an unattended install of FreeBSD 5.2.1. If I don't include the 'shutdown' command at the end of the install.cfg file, the install works fine, but I have to manually reboot the machine after the install, which is no good for an unattended install. If I do include 'shutdown', then it appears that the disk does not unmount properly before the reboot. The console displays "interrupt was seen but timeout fired" and then prints a number (e.g. 150) over and over again. Then the system reboots, but the new installation has errors on the filesystem and requires me to manually run fsck. Again, this is no good for an unattended installation. Is there anyway to reboot the system from the install.cfg file and have it unmount cleanly? -- Richard