On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 11:09:05AM +0200, Desmond Coughlan wrote: > Hi, > I hope that I'm not sending this to the wrong list, or that the question > hasn't already been answered. > > I'm trying to install 6.1-RELEASE onto a Pentium-3. > > I had a lot of trouble creating the diskettes, but after changing the > floppy drive, no problem. Now, when I do the install, I have two hard > drives, and configure them as follows... > > disk0 > 150M / > 512M /etc > 512M /etc > 512M /var > 1024M /bin > 4096M /usr > 1024M swap > > disk1 > 4096M /forums > 4096M /mail > 4096M /sql > 1024M swap > > I go through the installation, via ftp, and then set the root password. > Oh, and the 'FreeBSD boot manager' is the option I choose, when configuring > the disks.
This exact same question and situation was on the list about a week ago from someone else. You should check out recent archives. Anyway, my guess was that you must not make /etc a separate file system. It should remain as part of / (root). When the installation is going on, the system is really working from a different root and kernel and everything - one from the floppy or CD or in a 'memory' file system. That includes a special separate /etc directory. After the install, when the system is booting, it first mounts only root in a special Read Only state. It takes a wild guess that root is in partition 'a' of the boot slice - which is required so it is a true guess. But, then it tries to do a remount rw and to read /etc/fstab and maybe some other files to find out what to do for the rest of the boot, but since only root is mounted, it cannot find /etc/fstab because /etc is not mounted. So, you need to leave etc as part of root. This was initially a shot in the dark suggestion by me when this problem was posted a week ago, but the previous poster with that problem wrote back and said redoing the partitioning without a separate /etc solved the problem for him. So, my suggestions on the above are to get rid of the separate /etc partitions and to increase your /var to at least double. I also noted that you have '/etc' listed twice, but I was assuming that is a typo. If not, well, you can't do that - have two partitions mounted at the same mount point - at least not and still make use of both of them. ////jerry ps. You do not need 512 MB for /etc. Mine uses up only about 1.6 MB > > When I reboot, this is what I see ... > > Manual root filesystem specification > <fstype>:<device> Mount <device> using filesystem <fstype> eg > ufs:da0s1a > ? List valid disk boot devices > <empty line> Abort manual imput > > ... and that's it. > > Nothing else. The machine just sits there. > > Is there something I've missed ? We've tried the same install on three > different machines, using three different motherboards, and four different > hard drives. Something is wrong, either with the installation media, or else > with our method of going about it. Oh, and I tried installing 5.5 on the > same machines, with the same result. > > FreeBSD rocks; I've used it for a long time on many different machines, and > this is the first time that this has happened. > > Could someone suggest a solution? The people with whom I'm installing > this, are starting to whisper the word 'Linux', and it's giving me > nightmares.... :( > > Thanks. > > D.C > > > > --------------------------------- > D?couvrez un nouveau moyen de poser toutes vos questions quelque soit le > sujet ! Yahoo! Questions/R?ponses pour partager vos connaissances, vos > opinions et vos exp?riences. Cliquez ici. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
