From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 21 23:11:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from peloton.runet.edu (peloton.runet.edu [137.45.96.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05A5537B4D7 for ; Sat, 21 Oct 2000 23:11:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.runet.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA00835 for ; Sun, 22 Oct 2000 02:11:03 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.runet.edu) Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 02:11:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Brett Taylor To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: problems with re-install Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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: The data for partition 3 is: The data for partition 4 is: --------------------------------------- /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 ***************************************************** Dr. Brett Taylor brett@peloton.runet.edu * Dept of Chem and Physics * Curie 39A (540) 831-6147 * ***************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message