Problem at first boot

Rein Kadastik wigry at uninet.ee
Thu Sep 15 03:34:11 PDT 2005


BTW the reason of the booting problem is that kernel mounts / partition 
and expects to find /bin/sh from there but as the /bin is on separate 
partiton, then it fails.

-- Rein

Rein Kadastik wrote:

> Your partitioning is not correct. There is no point to put /bin and 
> /etc on their own partitions as they take very small amount of room.
>
> I recommend to make another clean install and select Auto option when 
> creating slices
>
> Usually separate partitions are recommended for the followind folders: 
> /, /tmp, /usr, /var, /home and swap
>
> The purpose of separate partitions are that if one partition gets full 
> then other partitoons have still room and the system can still run. 
> For example if the user downloads files to the home directory, then 
> only /home partition can be filled up but /, /usr, /var and /tmp 
> partitions would still have some room and the system can function 
> correctly. If there would be only one big / partition (totally legal 
> and possible to have) then the user could fill that partiton up and 
> system does not have room for logging and storing temporary files 
> which might introduce unexpected behaviour.
>
> Hope this explains the reason of the partitoning (Actually slicing in 
> FreeBSD as there is only one partition containing all the slices) and 
> therefore you can figure out the layout by yourself.
>
> -- Rein
>
> Julien FOURNIER wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm a new FreeBsd (French) user, and after 3 days of none-working
>> installs, I, now can boot my server with FreeBSD installed on it.
>> The problem is : it ask me to enter the path for the Shell, and I don't
>> know where it is. Here is the message I get when I attempt to boot :
>>
>> "Can't exec /bin/sh fot /etc/rc : No such File or directory.
>> Enter full path of Shell or type Enter for /bin/sh"
>>
>> If I type Enter, the system tells me that the file can't be found...I
>> don't know how to do!!!
>>
>> I have installed the system as following : Standard installation
>>
>> * / =>1GB
>> * /etc =>1GB
>> * /bin =>1GB
>> * /dev =>1GB
>> * swap partition =>2GB
>> * /var =>6GB
>>
>> Install with "FTP passive"
>>
>> This server is going to be a proxy server with vpn/ssl solution.
>>
>> Did I make an error while installing, or is there a simple solution to
>> solve my (very very !!!) big problem??
>>
>> Thanks a lot...
>>
>> ----------
>> Julien Fournier
>> jfournier at gse.fr
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