From owner-freebsd-fs Fri May 30 12:37:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA03444 for fs-outgoing; Fri, 30 May 1997 12:37:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grolsch.cs.ubc.ca (grolsch.cs.ubc.ca [142.103.6.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA03439 for ; Fri, 30 May 1997 12:37:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cascade.cs.ubc.ca (cascade.cs.ubc.ca [142.103.7.7]) by grolsch.cs.ubc.ca (8.8.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id MAA07538 for ; Fri, 30 May 1997 12:36:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: (mkerr@localhost) by cascade.cs.ubc.ca (8.8.5/8.6.12) id MAA24882 for fs@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 30 May 1997 12:36:29 -0700 (PDT) From: "Michael Kerr" Message-Id: <9705301236.ZM24880@cascade.cs.ubc.ca> Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 12:36:28 -0700 In-Reply-To: "Michael Kerr" "Install of second FreeBSD has corrupted existing install" (May 30, 11:24am) References: <9705301124.ZM16221@cascade.cs.ubc.ca> X-Mailer: Z-Mail (3.2.1 10apr95) To: fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install of second FreeBSD has corrupted existing install Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-fs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On May 30, 11:24am, Michael Kerr wrote: > Subject: Install of second FreeBSD has corrupted existing install > I had a free partition(slice) 2 as seen below for /dev/rsd0. I started an > install of freebsd to that partition but the network link was too slow and > after waiting a while I canceled. Under dos I deleted the partition so that > it was again free. > > The only unusual thing I noticed is that when I was going through the install > I chose A for automatic when in disklabel(I think that was the program) > It created the following > > sd0s3a / 32 > sd0s3b swap 138 > sd0s3e /var 30 > sd0s3f /usr 1761 > > Now I wanted / to be bigger but everytime I deleted it and the swap and tried > to make the / bigger and the swap smaller it would give me an error when I > tried to give it the name /. So in the end I went with automatic. > > After a slow ftp wait I gave up and canceled the install. > I went to dos and deleted the partiton for the new free bsd. > I found on reboot that where my original bsd boot was is now the aborted > install > which has no bootable kernel and therefore cannot boot. > > I booted to another existing freebsd on the second partiton and ran > fsck but it can only check /dev/sd0s2 which according to fdisk as shown > below shouldn't exist. btw it checks out fine. > > The / that stopped working is located on /dev/sd0a and its /usr is on > /dev/sd1s3e. > > now when I mount /dev/sd0a it gives me the / for the new install I was > performing. which is the same as mounting /dev/sd0s2 (which shouldn't exist) > > Well ,I now know you can only have one / per disk with FreeBSD. It used my original root partion of 196 meg even though I gave it a new partition to use. Arrg. Mike