Re: Can't mount filesystems?

[Andre Lucas <lucas@ae-35.net>]

Nathan Binkert wrote:
> >       After finishing up the disklabel setup and hitting q to save and exit, I
> > get an endless loop of: "Mount point for wd0d (size=48195K) [, RET, none,
> > or done]?" after hitting enter I get the same thing for wd0e. I'll hit
> > enter as many times, and it just keeps prompting me. It will only stop
> > after typing done.
> For wd0d, it should say /var.  If it doesn't, type in /var.  You can also
> specify /var at the time you create the label.  Though the message below
> seems to conflict saying that you have indicated it as /var.  Are these
> two messages from the same install session?
> r.e. done, this is how it is supposed to work.

During the install, the target filesystems are mounted under /mnt, so I
don't think that's the problem. That, too, is how it is supposed to work
:)
 
> > After it prompts me for another drive to initialize it says I have only
> > configured wd0a /. Then I say I really want to proceed, I dont want to
> > configure network and I get this:
> >
> > "/dev/wd0a on /mnt type ffs (rw, asynchronous, local)
> > mount_ffs: /dev/wd0d on /mnt/var: inappropraite file type or format
> Did you say that you wanted your filesystem on wd0d to be 4.2BSD?

Though I think that's probably what's up, I think we'd need to see the
whole session before knowing for sure what was wrong. Try it again, and
read the disklabel prompts very carefully before changing anything. You
should only have to change the mountpoint and the size.

I've only had trouble at this stage once, and the installer told me
exactly what was needed. Did you see a message before the last one
you've listed telling you to change (e.g.) the number of cylinders per
group? [1] If not, I'd suggest going through the install again very
carefully, the OpenBSD installer is very reliable in my experience.
 
-Andre

[1] I don't think that's an issue in 2.7, it used to be in 2.6 IIRC.