From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 25 23: 1:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from maloca.oca.org.br (maloca.oca.org.br [164.41.38.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3BAC37B98B for ; Sun, 25 Jun 2000 23:01:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@maloca.oca.org.br) Received: from localhost (root@localhost) by maloca.oca.org.br (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id DAA22755 for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 03:01:07 -0300 (EST) (envelope-from root@maloca.oca.org.br) Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 03:01:07 -0300 (EST) From: Paje da Oca To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.0 install/upgrade problem. In-Reply-To: <3956E732.96C089F@mail.usask.ca> 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 Unfortunately several of us share your problem. I have been told to stick to 3.x, as the new IDE device, "ad", is faulty. I wander if it will be changed in 4.1, or if it is different in 5.0. Leonardo On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Andrew Nichols wrote: > 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message