From owner-freebsd-mobile Sat Jan 22 10:37:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from horizon.barak-online.net (horizon.barak.net.il [206.49.94.218]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7C9814E69 for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 10:36:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bk532@iname.com) Received: from localhost.local.net (pop09-1-ras1-p196.barak.net.il [212.150.8.196]) by horizon.barak-online.net (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAA25188; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 20:35:19 +0200 (IST) Received: from iname.com (localhost.local.net [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.local.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA17032; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 20:11:47 +0200 (IST) (envelope-from bk532@iname.com) Message-ID: <3889F2E1.9B8838DD@iname.com> Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 20:11:45 +0200 From: Boris Karnaukh Organization: Private person X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en, ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marwan Fayed Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disappearing mount points after install References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Marwan Fayed wrote: > > 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. Did FreeBSD loader and/or kernel start up? Have you tested your computer for some kind of disk parameters translation in BIOS setup? I have had similar experience with Toshiba Satellite 2500CDS. > 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! > According to my experience, you should run /stand/sysinstall again after chosing "Fixit" option to make "w" option immediately work. You'll possibly have to create additional devices /dev/wd0? using MAKEDEV script from "Fixit" disk. -- Boris Karnaukh (mailto:bk532@iname.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message