FreeBSD 8.0 i386 unable to boot...

[Pierre-Luc Drouin]

Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote:
>   
>> After doing some more research, it seems that I am having the same
>> problem than described by this person:
>> http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=4502
>>     
>
> So you get the same "file system full" message and then a panic about 
> init?
>   
yes exactly. I currently have 4 20GB partitions/slices on that drive
1: Win XP fat32
2: Old FreeBSD installation
3: FAT32
4: Empty UFS2
>   
>> however I really don't understand why I would need to move partitions
>> around to allow the installer to even start? This machine has 2GB of
>> RAM which I guess should be plenty enough to start the installer
>> without swapping... The hard drive is a 80GB WD IDE drive. The
>> machine is not configured to use any RAID.
>>     
>
> It is pretty odd, I've installed FreeBSD on a laptop with 60Gb 
> partitions and FreeBSD was last yet it worked fine..
>
>   
This is the first time I see that kind of warning as well although I 
have been using it for about 10 years...