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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!news.bluesky.net!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!library.ucla.edu!galaxy.ucr.edu!admin1101dp.ucr.edu!lirwin From: lirwin@admin1101dp.ucr.edu (Loren Irwin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Partitioning problems Date: 11 Jun 1995 23:40:36 GMT Organization: University of California, Riverside Lines: 39 Message-ID: <3rfutk$pin@galaxy.ucr.edu> References: <3rfqht$9a5@CUBoulder.Colorado.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: admin1101dp.ucr.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] WOOD JAMEY RYAN (woodjr@benji.Colorado.EDU) wrote: : I just upgraded to 2.0.5R yesterday, and things went fine (at first). : But after half a dozen or so boots, it started coming up with "panic: cannot : mount root." Well since I still had the distribution files sitting on my : dos partition, and didn't have much to lose on the freebsd side, I decided : to just start over from scratch. : But this time things aren't going so smoothly. When I get to the : "partition" menu in the installation process, it doesn't recognize my dos : partition as existing, and insists that my hard drive is around 1.3 gigs, : instead of the actual 515 megs. : Furthermore, dos (6.2) fdisk has gotten quite impotent... I've : tried an 'fdisk /mbr' to uninstall os-bs. It accesses the hard drive for a : second, and stops. But when I reboot, the os-bs is still sitting there... : I also tried os-bs's own uninstall procedure (which is supposed to restore : the mbr from a backup), but it has the same effect... : Any other fdisk actions are about the same... If I try to delete : the freebsd partition, for example, it'll say that it has done it. But after : a reboot, it'll show it as still being present. : So does anyone have any ideas of what the problem could be? I've : gone through the bios menus and tried toggling values for anything that : looks like it might be some sort of mbr protection, etc. But nothing that : I've tried has helped. : --Jamey Wood Well, this is good to hear (misery enjoys company :-) I'm having the same phenomena. But It got worse after installing a few more times; Now it won't even finish installing, but stops with some kind of weird write error. I wonder if you're using the same kind of drive.. I have a Western Digital Caviar 2540, 515M IDE. -Loren