Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 22:14:10 -0600 From: "F. Even" <freebsdlists@elitists.org> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: fbsd 5.1 setup problem, "too many active children of 'whole' Message-ID: <BBE83332.21468%freebsdlists@elitists.org> In-Reply-To: <20031125004420.CD6F416A4DE@hub.freebsd.org>
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If it helps, I'm getting this error after allocating the whole drive to one slice, when I go to install the BootMgr on the first drive, it pops up that error. Thanks, Frank On 11/24/03 6:44 PM, "freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org> wrote: > Message: 34 > Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 18:37:22 -0600 > From: "F. Even" <freebsdlists@elitists.org> > Subject: fbsd 5.1 setup problem, "too many active children of 'whole' > To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > Message-ID: <BBE80062.21401%freebsdlists@elitists.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > Hello all, > > I have recently completely cleared all the cruft off of this P3-700 with 2 > 9GB Seagate SCSI drives, and 1 Maxtor 40GB drive. > > I ran this on it apparently successfully (after booting from the 5.1 live > filesystem cd): > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da1 > > I am now trying to install 5.1 on this machine, using Express install, and I > get this error after telling the machine to use the whole slice on da0: > > "Too many active children of 'whole'" > > What does this mean? I have not done anything since. What does this mean, > and what should I be doing now that I have seen this error. > > Thanks for any help any of you may provide. > > Frank
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