disk too big to mount

youshi10 at u.washington.edu youshi10 at u.washington.edu
Mon May 21 23:03:08 UTC 2007


On Mon, 21 May 2007, Reid Linnemann wrote:

> Written by Yanko Sanchez on 05/21/07 14:03>>
>> Thanks for anyone that  has helped so far, I'm a freebsd newbie coming
>> from linux.
>> 
>> So I basically re-compiled my kernel with the LARGE option on and it
>> seems to mount the drive fine. I encountered another problem tho.
>> 
>> Before I recompiled the kernel I updated the ports tree, basically cos
>> I just wanted to see how it was done and it seemed to be successful.
>> The problem is that after I recompiled the kernel a bunch of stuff
>> stoped working.  I have the server setup as a router and my to Network
>> cards isn't showing up anymore (both being the same type of cards, I
>> use to have rl0 and rl1) so It isn't routing anymore, and now im
>> getting a bunch of DHCPREQUEST messages on startup which I wasn't
>> getting before. And other errors saying that my network card isn't
>> configured. I checked /etc/rc.conf and the lines for ifconfig are
>> still in there...
>> 
>> Did I upgrade the kernel sources by doing an upgrade to the ports?
>> That would make sense, but what bugs me is that I copied the same
>> kernel config and just added the MSDOSFS_LARGE option once I booted up
>> I got the errors mentioned above. Shouldn't it have stayed pretty much
>> the same? I'm just trying to get a better understand if what happened
>> to that I don't make the same mistake.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>
> 1. How did you upgrade your ports tree?
> 2. How did you recompile the kernel?
> 3. What does uname -a report?
> 4. what is the output of ifconfig -a?

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Thanks,
-Garrett



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