From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 24 23:14: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp05.wxs.nl (smtp05.wxs.nl [195.121.6.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7898114F59 for ; Sun, 24 Oct 1999 23:13:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.196.1]) by smtp05.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.61) with ESMTP id AAC74B4; Mon, 25 Oct 1999 08:13:56 +0200 Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by daemon.ninth-circle.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id HAA20623; Mon, 25 Oct 1999 07:32:56 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 07:32:56 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Long Hoang Tran Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installation problem Message-ID: <19991025073256.B20411@daemon.ninth-circle.org> References: <19991024220315.B19423@daemon.ninth-circle.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: Organisation: Ninth-Circle Enterprises Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -On [19991025 04:00], Long Hoang Tran (s9708953@cse.rmit.edu.au) wrote: >hi there again, > So far my partition is as such and the installation seems okay >/ = 52M >swap =40M >swap =40M >/var =32M >/tmp =48M >/usr =498M >/home =100M > >However at the end of the installation when it finishes creating extra >users for the system, it doesn't finish and reboot. The first screen >which asks which installation you want to use pops up again, eg >Novice,Expert etc.. To allow you to do any post-install configuration. I think that was a selectable option when installing. >At this stage since the only option to exit is to "Exit Install" I >simply chose this option and reboot. Sounds normal. >However when i try to start freebsd, it seems to load the kernel but >that's it. After that it just reboots again by itself. Sentences like this are much more meaningful if you could at least try to give the output of what it does. Also, try booting with -v or set boot_verbose and see where it goes wrong. -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai(at)wxs.nl The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project Network/Security Specialist BSD: Technical excellence at its best Here is, I believe, the fundamental rule of all being: Life is not at all like this. It is completely different... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message