Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 12:36:28 -0700 From: "Michael Kerr" <mkerr@cs.ubc.ca> To: fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install of second FreeBSD has corrupted existing install Message-ID: <9705301236.ZM24880@cascade.cs.ubc.ca> In-Reply-To: "Michael Kerr" <mkerr@cs.ubc.ca> "Install of second FreeBSD has corrupted existing install" (May 30, 11:24am) References: <9705301124.ZM16221@cascade.cs.ubc.ca>
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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
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