From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 25 12:50:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA26591 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 12:50:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA26583 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 12:50:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA17579; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 12:50:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 12:50:11 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Henrik Johansson cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation problem. In-Reply-To: <3475C607.B3DD22C5@swipnet.se> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, Henrik Johansson wrote: > Hello!,.. > > I'm installing FreeBSD for the first time and have encountered a > problem, when the installation program starts to mount /dev, /, /usr and > so on, an error message appears which says "usf_lock recursing not > expected" - well, at least something like it. > Therefore I need some help to solve this problem. Yipe, looks like your filesystem is corrupted. If you can, run fsck against it. > Also, I've noticed that Partition Magic's boot manager works very well > in an environment with multiple OSes, maybe you can have it as an option > for bootmanagers. That is commercialware, unfortunately, but it is a good bootmanager. It was included with OS/2 which is how I came across it. It does need the 2mb partition so it doesn't work as a drop-in add-on. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major