From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 22 11:52:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from monsoon.mail.pipex.net (monsoon.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D24D914E70 for ; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 11:52:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (qmail 16065 invoked from network); 22 Dec 1999 19:52:33 -0000 Received: from userbz45.uk.uudial.com (HELO marder-1.) (62.188.150.14) by smtp.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 22 Dec 1999 19:52:33 -0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.3/8.8.8) id TAA00801; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 19:52:34 GMT (envelope-from mark) Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 19:52:33 +0000 From: Mark Ovens To: Rich Wilson Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Out of file descriptors at boot Message-ID: <19991222195233.E322@marder-1> References: <19991222194142.8666.qmail@web1905.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <19991222194142.8666.qmail@web1905.mail.yahoo.com> Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 11:41:42AM -0800, Rich Wilson wrote: > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE on a laptop. > It already has W95 on one partition, and I have it > dual booting. I put a bare bones /bin install set on > the DOS partition, and installed from that (I can only > use floppy or CD, not both at once). I then installed > the CD-Rom, and was able to install /src/sys I wanted > to rebuild the kernel with a copy of the PCCARD > config. > > When I boot now, I get > > changing root device to wd0s2a > .: Out of file descriptors > Did you copy /etc/defaults/rc.conf to /etc/rc.conf? If so, look at the end of (both) files. It gets into a loop until it uses up all the file descriptors. > I can still mount file systems manually, and make a > kernel, but before it finishes, it runs out of swap space. > > ===== > __o > -\<, Rich Wilson > 0/ 0 > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. > Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- "there's a long-standing bug relating to the x86 architecture that allows you to install Windows too ;" -Matthew D. Fuller ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message