Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:46:48 -0500 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: lconrad@go2france.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: amd64 and sysinstall weirdness Message-ID: <6201873e0907311146q378d5625n7247d44511c2667@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200907312020.AA230163034@mail.Go2France.com> References: <200907312020.AA230163034@mail.Go2France.com>
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On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Len Conrad <lconrad@go2france.com> wrote: > Dell PE 1950 > > FreeBSD 7.2 amd64 > > > boot from disc01 into sysinstall, do our regular setup, reboot, and df > shows only / and /devfs. f > > stab has /usr and /var missing. > > so we go into sysinstall, slices are correct: > > Disk name: mfid0 FDISK Partition > Editor > DISK Geometry: 17688 cyls/255 heads/63 sectors = 284157720 sectors > (138748MB) > > Offset Size(ST) End Name PType Desc Subtype > Flags > > 0 63 62 - 12 unused 0 > 63 10474317 10474379 mfid0s1 8 freebsd 165 > 10474380 4192965 14667344 mfid0s2 8 freebsd 165 > 14667345 10474380 25141724 mfid0s3 8 freebsd 165 > 25141725 259015995 284157719 mfid0s4 8 freebsd 165 > 284157720 6376 284164095 - 12 unused 0 > > > but labels: > > FreeBSD Disklabel Editor > > Disk: mfid0 Partition name: mfid0s1 Free: 0 blocks (0MB) > Disk: mfid0 Partition name: mfid0s2 Free: 0 blocks (0MB) > Disk: mfid0 Partition name: mfid0s3 Free: 10474380 blocks (5114MB) > Disk: mfid0 Partition name: mfid0s4 Free: 259015995 blocks (123GB) > > Part Mount Size Newfs Part Mount Size Newfs > ---- ----- ---- ----- ---- ----- ---- ----- > ufsid/4a72<none>b432c4 5114MB * > mfid0s2b swap 2047MB SWAP > > .. the /usr and /var mount points were "lost". > > fstab: > > cat /etc/fstab > # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump > Pass# > /dev/mfid0s2b none swap sw 0 0 > /dev/ufsid/4a72bbc67db432c4a / ufs rw > 1 1 > /dev/acd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 > > we saw the /var and /usr filesystems were really there, so we added to > fstab: > > /dev/mfid0s3 /usr ufs rw 2 2 > /dev/mfid0s4 /var ufs rw 2 2 > > and rebooted, all seems ok. > > We went through this drill twice, and got the same results. > > /var/run/dmesg: > > mfid0: <MFI Logical Disk> on mfi0 > mfid0: 138752MB (284164096 sectors) RAID volume '' is optimal > > SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched! > SMP: AP CPU #2 Launched! > SMP: AP CPU #3 Launched! > > GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider mfid0s1 is ufsid/4a72bbc67db432c4. > GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider mfid0s3 is ufsid/4a72bbc60412e6dd. > GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider mfid0s4 is ufsid/4a72bbc6e3898627. > > Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ufsid/4a72bbc67db432c4a > GEOM_LABEL: Label ufsid/4a72bbc60412e6dd removed. > GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider mfid0s3 is ufsid/4a72bbc60412e6dd. > GEOM_LABEL: Label ufsid/4a72bbc6e3898627 removed. > GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider mfid0s4 is ufsid/4a72bbc6e3898627. > GEOM_LABEL: Label ufsid/4a72bbc60412e6dd removed. > GEOM_LABEL: Label ufsid/4a72bbc6e3898627 removed. > > Anybody know why the sysintall labels and fstab aren't showing up the way > we set them up in sysinstall? > > thanks > Len > Looks like you may getting slices and partitions confused. Generally your partitions are subsets of slices eg: ad0s1a ad0s1b ad0s1c ad0s1d ad0s1f Where as your output is something like this: ad0s1 ad0s2 ad0s3 ad0s4 Unless you have some pressing reason to do otherwise, choose the Auto settings they are sufficient for most purposes. -- Adam Vande More
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