From owner-freebsd-mobile Sat Jan 22 9:29:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from polaris.cs.laurentian.ca (polaris.cs.laurentian.ca [142.51.24.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3556F14C8A for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 09:29:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from s0121430@cs.laurentian.ca) Received: (qmail 295 invoked from network); 22 Jan 2000 17:29:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO eten-04.cs.laurentian.ca) (142.51.24.4) by polaris.cs.laurentian.ca with SMTP; 22 Jan 2000 17:29:23 -0000 Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 12:29:23 -0500 (EST) From: Marwan Fayed To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: disappearing mount points after install Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello, I am a seasoned UNIX user but have been using freebsd for only about 6 months. I have posted this problem to freebsd-questions with no response so, figuring it must be a bug in the install program i'm going to try here. Oh, I would like to have traced the code to try to find the bug (if one exists) but being a senior year undergrad with a full course load and thesis, I have been left with little time... please forgive me. My problem is this. I am trying to install 3.3-R on an IBM Thinkpad 365XD (although I have received mail from a man in France who is having the same problem on a desktop). The installation runs completely smoothly but when I finish and reboot the machine reports no resident O.S. After trying many different things (including messing with the MBR, double and triple checking disk geometry, and using a Fixit disk to try to diagnose the problem), I booted from the install floppy to the main install menu. Rather than re-install all over again for the nth time I just entered the label editor. The partitions were still there but the mount points were lost. What appeared was this: 40M // supposed to be root swap 84M // swap is obviously OK 651M // supposed to be /usr This is clearly not what I designated so I tried relabelling the mount points, writing the information using 'w' and exiting install only to have the BIOS report no O.S. yet again! The machine is a P100,40M ram,810HD, standard PCI (as far as I have been able to tell/test). Has anyone encountered this or know the problem? Thanks a TON! Marwan :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message