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Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 09:58:15 -0700
From: "Gary W. Swearingen" <garys@opusnet.com>
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Subject: FreeBSD 4.11-R won't install to 4th part of 2nd disk

>Number:         84084
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       [sysinstall] FreeBSD 4.11-R won't install to 4th part of 2nd disk
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Jul 25 17:00:29 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:    Tue Feb 20 14:35:58 GMT 2007
>Last-Modified:  Tue Feb 20 14:35:58 GMT 2007
>Originator:     Gary W. Swearingen
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
none
>Environment:
n/a
>Description:
(It DID install to the 2nd part.)

I've tried to install 4.8-RELEASE and 4.11-RELEASE from ISO CD and 4.11-RELEASE
from floppy and FTP and while it gives every indication of installing OK, the
partition that I intended to install to is probably unchanged (I saw old OS
there) and boot0 won't load it.

I tried many times, using existing partitions and sub-partitions (just changing
mount points from "none") and having sysinstall remove the partition and
creating new sub-partitions, etc.

I tried installing 5.4-RELEASE to the same partition and it worked OK.

This was all on the ad2s4 partition.  I have a ad0 and ad2, similar 80 GB drives
each with 4 ~20 GB partitions.

I tried installing 4.11-RELEASE to ad2s2 and it worked fine.

I understand that it might not make sense to debug 4.x now for this kind of
problem, but it sure gave me grief as I needed the smaller memory requirements
of 4.x to build a picobsd firewall and I couldn't manage to cross-compile with
the 4.x sources on my 5.4 system.  I suspect that 4.x will be used for a long
time like this.

I'll leave my ad2s4 available for a while in case I'm asked to run more
experiments on it.

Oh, this is on a Gigabyte GA-K8NSC-939 with Athlon64 and 512MB RAM, and I used
the i386 OSes, not the amd64s (if they exist).

On a couple of my failed attempts, I got a "filesystem full" error soon after
it started to load the distributions.  I did a "df" in the emergency terminal
and I don't understand what's going on there with the wierd mount points, etc.,
but I wondered if it was installing to only a memory filesytem.

>How-To-Repeat:
n/a

>Fix:
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->suspended 
State-Changed-By: linimon 
State-Changed-When: Mon Jul 25 20:50:45 GMT 2005 
State-Changed-Why:  
As submitter notes, it's probably unlikely that this problem, which 
he claims is specific to 4.X, is going to be addressed. 


Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-qa 
Responsible-Changed-By: linimon 
Responsible-Changed-When: Mon Jul 25 20:50:45 GMT 2005 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
I am _assuming_ that this is a problem with sysinstall and so labeling 
it; however, it may be that it is a more generic problem. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=84084 
State-Changed-From-To: suspended->closed 
State-Changed-By: remko 
State-Changed-When: Tue Feb 20 14:35:56 UTC 2007 
State-Changed-Why:  
I am sorry but we will not be fixing 4.x specific stuff anymore. Please 
use 6.x if possible, I did notice however that you mention that that 
isn't possible due to memory usage, can you tell us in that case what 
the problem is? (What is taking up too much memory compared to 4.x?) so 
that we know and might be able to look into it and / or resolve it. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=84084 
>Unformatted:
