Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 20:11:45 +0200 From: Boris Karnaukh <bk532@iname.com> To: Marwan Fayed <s0121430@cs.laurentian.ca> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disappearing mount points after install Message-ID: <3889F2E1.9B8838DD@iname.com> References: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10001221217290.969-100000@eten-04.cs.laurentian.ca>
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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: > > <none> 40M // supposed to be root > swap 84M // swap is obviously OK > <none> 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. -- <Signed> Boris Karnaukh (mailto:bk532@iname.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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