From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 8 7:30:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D67515216 for ; Mon, 8 Nov 1999 07:30:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (p16-dn02kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [210.163.200.113]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) with ESMTP id AAA02095; Tue, 9 Nov 1999 00:30:05 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <3826EBF5.6FD7794D@newsguy.com> Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 00:27:49 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Roelof Osinga Cc: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: easyboot far into disk References: <199911062057.MAA07266@dingo.cdrom.com> <3825A36E.5920209D@nisser.com> <382682AE.86B03706@newsguy.com> <3826DD4C.9BD9E93@nisser.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Roelof Osinga wrote: > > > 1) boot the installation disks until sysinstall comes up. > > 2) select the Fixit option (the one that mentiones a shell, y'know) > > on the main menu. > > Alas, won't work. Root is most definitely not the root on the hard > disk. You can do thing within the fixit environment but not much > else. Also the fixit option is part of the installation menu. A menu > that when you exit it reboots the machine. mount wd0a /mnt? Is it too much typing for you? > This is more a leven I can relate too . Actually I'm going to try > another tack. I wiped the disk and will now see if I can get it to > install, and boot, using raw geometry. This by creating two partitions. > The first small enough to reside in first 1024 cyls, holding but > one slice with the root partition. The other covering the rest of > the disk and containing the rest of the usual slices. You mean two _slices_, one on the first 1024, and the other at the end of the disk containing the usual _partitions_ (FreeBSD terminoloy -- not getting religious here, just clarifying)? This is a common work-around. > Theoretically it ought to work. The question is is the install flexible > enough to allow one to create multiple partitions as well as the needed > slices within those partitions. AFAIK, it should be relatively trivial. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org What y'all wanna do? Wanna be hackers? Code crackers? Slackers Wastin' time with all the chatroom yakkers? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message