From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 9 06:19:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id GAA01049 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 06:19:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from horton.iaces.com ([204.147.87.98]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id GAA01044 for ; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 06:18:52 -0800 (PST) Received: (from proot@localhost) by horton.iaces.com (8.8.4/8.7.3) id IAA03254; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 08:18:20 -0600 (CST) From: "Paul T. Root" Message-Id: <199701091418.IAA03254@horton.iaces.com> Subject: Re: 2.1.6 Install question (resend) To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 08:18:20 -0600 (CST) Cc: dwlewis@intervista.com, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from Doug White at "Jan 8, 97 02:49:27 pm" X-Organization: !nterprise Networking Services - ACES X-Phone: (612) 663-1979 X-Fax: (612) 663-8030 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 200 S. 5th St., Suite 1100 X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55402 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In a previous message, Doug White said: > On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, David Lewis wrote: > > > Turns out that the kernel install doesn't like /sbin to not be loading on > > the / partition. I was attempting to install /sbin on its own partition. > > > > Once I backed out of this and installed /sbin under /, the problem was > > resolved (after much irritation and headache). > > So you created a mountpoint /sbin? > > How odd... I'll keep that for future reference. It's not odd if you think about it. The system needs to do somethings in order to start up the system, amoung them is mount the filesystems. You'll find mount in /sbin. -- "Please remain seated until the movie grinds to a complete halt." --Tom Servo MST 3000