Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 16:08:16 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Pierre-Luc Drouin <pldrouin@pldrouin.net>, "Peter C. Lai" <peter@simons-rock.edu> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 8.0 i386 unable to boot... Message-ID: <201002091608.24051.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <4B70C851.9010604@pldrouin.net> References: <4B70C1F8.8090809@pldrouin.net> <20100209022039.GE4648@cesium.hyperfine.info> <4B70C851.9010604@pldrouin.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: > After doing some more research, it seems that I am having the same > problem than described by this person: > http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=4502 So you get the same "file system full" message and then a panic about init? > however I really don't understand why I would need to move partitions > around to allow the installer to even start? This machine has 2GB of > RAM which I guess should be plenty enough to start the installer > without swapping... The hard drive is a 80GB WD IDE drive. The > machine is not configured to use any RAID. It is pretty odd, I've installed FreeBSD on a laptop with 60Gb partitions and FreeBSD was last yet it worked fine.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBLcPTP5ZPcIHs/zowRAqU0AJsG9K5mIUdA2+iQaqCWnQySOuxTZgCeOI3q D455p7ogmIpXgbbuD5Awx2E= =z4hX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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