From owner-freebsd-current Sat Nov 17 12:36:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.switch.aust.com (ppp63.adsl238.pacific.net.au [203.143.238.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8378F37B405 for ; Sat, 17 Nov 2001 12:36:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp2.switch.aust.com (IDENT:root@ras.wa [10.0.1.140]) by mail.switch.aust.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id GAA06240; Sun, 18 Nov 2001 06:36:13 +1000 X-Authentication-Warning: server1.ussbris: Host IDENT:root@ras.wa [10.0.1.140] claimed to be smtp2.switch.aust.com Received: from freebsd06.udt (nelsont@freebsd06.udt [10.0.2.56]) by smtp2.switch.aust.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id fAHKuJt26273; Sun, 18 Nov 2001 04:56:19 +0800 Received: by freebsd06.udt (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 18 Nov 2001 04:31:40 +0800 Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 04:31:40 +0800 From: Trent Nelson To: Makoto Matsushita Cc: nelsont@switch.aust.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@winston.freebsd.org, hiroo@oikumene.gcd.org Subject: Re: Sysinstall is still horribly broken. Message-ID: <20011118043140.A20452@freebsd06.udt> References: <20011118031815.A17408@freebsd06.udt> <20011118051030B.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011118051030B.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>; from matusita@jp.freebsd.org on Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 05:10:30AM +0900 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 05:10:30AM +0900, Makoto Matsushita wrote: > > nelsont> I had to toss my 20011111 snapshot because it still had > nelsont> the /mnt/dev sysinstall problem which was apparently > nelsont> fixed as of 20011112. It isn't. > > I'll try to investigate tomorrow (strictly speaking, 'late today in > JST'; I'm sleepy), but according to my intuition, this is yet another > bug; something goes wrong when there are partitions already in a disk. > > I have several questions to you before I reproduce this bug: > > 1) What's in your slice 1 and 2? Windows? other FreeBSD? The following is what the partition editor reports from the 5.0 snapshot. I've included it 'cause I've always found it amusing how the partitions ended up being arranged on these drives. (It was originally a PartitionMagic effort to resize the factory def- ault Windows partition). Offset Size(MB) End Name Ptype Desc Subtype 0 0 62 - 6 unused 0 63 5992 12273659 ad0s2 3 freebsd 165 C 12273660 3498 19438649 ad0s3 3 freebsd 165 19438650 5585 30876929 ad0s4 3 freebsd 165 30876930 0 30876882 - 6 unused 0 30876993 4000 39070079 ad0s1 2 fat 12 ad0s2 has 4.4-STABLE on it. ad0s4 is just a shared area. ad0s3 is for -CURRENT, and ad0s1 gets the grand responsibility of looking after the stock Windows ME that came with the laptop. > 2) You said that your ad0s3 was already partitioned. Does this mean > that you have already installed FreeBSD to ad0s3 and try to > overwrite existing installations? Well, yes and no. I actually already had a -CURRENT installed on ad0s3. But this was from a slightly older 5.0 snapshot where I Ctrl-C'd in the middle of the bin installation, then made all the appropriate links to correct the problem of /mnt/xxx not existing. At the time I sent out the e-mail, I had manually newfs'd ad0s3[efg] from -CURRENT, then newfs'd ad0s3a when I was running 4.4-STABLE. > 3) Do you have other fresh (i.e., non-partitioned) disk to install > FreeBSD again? In light of what you've just said about this being a different problem to what other people have been reporting, I marked each slice as being UFS+S Y so they were recreated with newfs. This has worked! So, it looks like it's just a problem with existing partitions. > Makoto `MAR' Matsushita Thanks for your quick reply. Trent. -- Trent Nelson - Software Engineer - nelsont@switch.aust.com "A man with unlimited enthusiasm can achieve almost anything." --unknown To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message