Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 23:16:34 -0600 From: Andrew Nichols <aen552@mail.usask.ca> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: FreeBSD 4.0 install/upgrade problem. Message-ID: <3956E732.96C089F@mail.usask.ca>
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I am a FreeBSD 3.4 user who wants to upgrade to 4.0 but I'm having a problem. I cvsup'd all my source and they compiled flawlessly, I compiled a new kernel and used MAKEDEV to make the devices in the /dev directory (as per the UPDATING intructions) but when I reboot it says that the partition I was using for 3.4 is beyond the physical limits of the disk and it truncates the partition. That is where the problem lies, it thinks the disk is 2GB when it infact is an 8GB disk (6GB for a windows parition and 2GB for a FreeBSD partition). So I thought it was just an install problem, and since I b0rked the partitions anyway I tried to fresh install 4.0 from the boot diskettes. That didn't work either. It doesn't see the 2GB BSD partition. I tried changing the drive geometry but it still never found the space. After that I tried re-installing 3.4 and without changing any partition information the 3.4 boot diskettes found the 2GB partition (the RH linux installer also found it). Is this a known 4.0 problem? Or is it that my disk is b0rked? I've searched everywhere on the FreeBSD web site and I can't find anything relating to this problem. Any help would be _greatly_ appreciated. Thanks for reading, Andrew Nichols To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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