FreeBSD 8.0 i386 unable to boot...

[Pierre-Luc Drouin]

About this problem, I have seen that in the past there have been problem 
with libdisk when a WinXP partition had an invalid name. Could it be 
something like that that could be causing this error? I guess the 
problem occurs somewhere in the Open_Disk function of libdisk, right? 
Should I be able to get around this problem by installing through a 
PC-BSD CD instead? I have never tried PC-BSD. Does their installer rely 
on libdisk at all?

Thanks!

Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote:
> 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...
>