Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 02:11:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.runet.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: problems with re-install Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010220159130.608-100000@peloton.runet.edu>
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Hi
I am having problems with a re-install. I got a new disk to add to my
system so I decided to reinstall (since I was back at 3.4 still anyway)
instead of doing a long-ish make world (I have really good network
connectivity).
I installed the new disk and initially put /, /var, and some swap on the
old disk, with /usr on the new. Everything installed great (or so it
appeared). It would NOT boot however. I figured I screwed something up
with the install or putting the new disk in so I removed the new disk and
tried reinstalling solely on the old disk. No go - still wouldn't reboot.
Tried many more times - once I got the dreaded "missing operating system"
but most of the time it would just sit there.
The final time I tried I checked fdisk before rebooting from sysinstall -
it showed da0 being active. After rebooting (and choosing the correct
kernel after booting from the floppies) I checked again - fdisk output
follows:
******* Working on device /dev/da0 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=261 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)
parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=261 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)
Media sector size is 512
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
start 63, size 4192902 (2047 Meg), flag 80 (active)
beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1;
end: cyl 260/ sector 63/ head 254
The data for partition 2 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 3 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 4 is:
<UNUSED>
---------------------------------------
/etc/fstab:
-------------------------------------------------
# Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass#
/dev/da0s1b none swap sw 0 0
/dev/da0s1a / ufs rw 1 1
/dev/da0s1f /usr ufs rw 2 2
/dev/da0s1e /var ufs rw 2 2
/dev/acd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0
proc /proc procfs rw 0 0
-------------------------------------------------
I can't figure out what is going wrong - I forced it to boot by loading
the kernel from the floppy, but sheesh.
The machine is a Digital 200i, Adaptec 2940UW controller using a Seagate
Barracuda disk (the original).
Could the "warning" in the fdisk output be a clue? I'm pretty clueless
when it comes to BIOS and hardware problems. :-)
Brett
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Dr. Brett Taylor brett@peloton.runet.edu *
Dept of Chem and Physics *
Curie 39A (540) 831-6147 *
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