Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 15:01:38 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Marwan Fayed <s0121430@cs.laurentian.ca> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disappearing mount points after install Message-ID: <200001222301.PAA04945@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 22 Jan 2000 12:29:23 EST." <Pine.GSO.4.10.10001221217290.969-100000@eten-04.cs.laurentian.ca>
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> 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. This will be due to you not having an active partition marked in the MBR, or not having a valid bootblock. Boot sysinstall, go to the configure menu, select the slice table/fdisk editor, select your slice and hit 'a'. Then hit 'w' and write the data out; when prompted (both times) select the 'standard MBR' option (remember that you have to actually select the option before hitting Enter). > 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 It is. The label editor only tells you what's in the label; the mountpoints are only stored in the fstab, which is not visible to the label editor at this time. What you're seeing here is normal and indicates that both the MBR and the disklabel were written to your disk correctly. It's entirely unrelated to your current problem. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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