From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Jul 21 14: 1:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3916037C021 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 14:01:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from semuta.feral.com (semuta [192.67.166.70]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA14339; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 14:01:27 -0700 Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 14:01:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Dirk Kleinhesselink , alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.1-20000719-RC#2 In-Reply-To: <4985.964212560@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The presumption here is that sysinstall is mounting the wrong disk. This has nothing to do with preservation of old data. On isaac.nas.nasa.gov, putting boot.flp on the *second* disk, I ran into the 'going nowhere w/o my init' problem as soon as I selected a terminal type. NetBSD was installed on the first && third disks. On ursula.nas.nasa.gov, I put boot.flp on the *first* disk, and did not run into this problem. This seems to give a clue as to where the problem might be. All of this has been reported in email, fairly clearly. On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > > > > > Seems like it would be an easy thing to try to reproduce: just put a > > > couple of disks on the system and install Tru64/NetBSD/Linux/OpenVMS on > > > one of them and then try to install FreeBSD on the other disk... > > > > You don't even have to do that. Just take a previous FreeBSD installation and > > move /sbin/init aside and create a zero length /sbin/init. > > I'm still not sure I understand how that should have any effect. > You're doing an install here, right? And the install is going to > newfs the root filesystem and repopulate it with distribution bits, > right? > > If you're somehow electing to preserve the existing root partition > and/or not extract, at a minimum, bindist then this isn't an > installation at all, this is some sort of "you must know what you're > doing well enough not to shoot your feet off" quasi-upgrade operation. > Please clarify. Thanks. > > - Jordan > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message