From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 22 9:44:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from camus.cybercable.fr (camus.cybercable.fr [212.198.0.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F096214DB3 for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 09:44:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from herbelot@cybercable.fr) Received: (qmail 27606873 invoked from network); 22 Jan 2000 17:44:40 -0000 Received: from d016.paris-30.cybercable.fr (HELO cybercable.fr) ([212.198.30.16]) (envelope-sender ) by camus.cybercable.fr (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 22 Jan 2000 17:44:40 -0000 Message-ID: <3889ECB5.9E75171B@cybercable.fr> Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 18:45:25 +0100 From: Thierry Herbelot X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marwan Fayed Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disappearing mount points after install References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello [-mobile trimmed] Marwan Fayed wrote: > > Hello, > > I am a seasoned UNIX user but have been using freebsd for only about 6 > months. I have posted this problem to freebsd-questions with no response > so, figuring it must be a bug in the install program i'm going to try > here. Oh, I would like to have traced the code to try to find the bug (if > one exists) but being a senior year undergrad with a full course load and > thesis, I have been left with little time... please forgive me. > > My problem is this. I am trying to install 3.3-R on an IBM Thinkpad 365XD > (although I have received mail from a man in France who is having the same > problem on a desktop). The installation runs completely smoothly but when > I finish and reboot the machine reports no resident O.S. This may be due to a faulty BIOS : some BIOSes do not like at all not having a DOS partition at the beginning of the disk (I have some HP PCs with just 20 Megs of FAT at the start of the disk to keep them booting - from , which is FreeBSD) > > After trying many different things (including messing with the MBR, double > and triple checking disk geometry, and using a Fixit disk to try to > diagnose the problem), I booted from the install floppy to the main > install menu. Rather than re-install all over again for the nth time I > just entered the label editor. The partitions were still there but the > mount points were lost. What appeared was > this: > > 40M // supposed to be root > swap 84M // swap is obviously OK > 651M // supposed to be /usr The mount points for each partition are recorded in /etc/fstab : what you are seeing is completely normal, as sysinstall has not read the fstab file from the root partition of your disk. > > This is clearly not what I designated so I tried relabelling the mount > points, writing the information using 'w' and exiting install only to have > the BIOS report no O.S. yet again! Try and leave a small DOS partition at the beginning of your disk, as said above. > > The machine is a P100,40M ram,810HD, standard PCI (as far as I have been > able to tell/test). Has anyone encountered this or know the problem? > > Thanks a TON! > > Marwan :-) TfH > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message