From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 19 00:58:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA11665 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 00:58:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA11658 for ; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 07:58:15 GMT (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA07307; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 00:58:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 00:58:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Clare & Peter Stubbs cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: empty partition/can't find boot.config & boot.help In-Reply-To: <199804182251.XAA01272@gnasher.sol.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, Clare & Peter Stubbs wrote: > I wanted some more space to store the /usr/src tree, so I claimed the > 300M d: back off my windows install for FreeBSD. I used > /stand/sysinstall to create the partition and label it, but had to > newfs it my self. The command I used was 'newfs -b 8192 -f1024 > /dev/wd0s2e' It all looked fine, and I copied the src tree over onto > it and rebooted just to check that it all worked. I now get this > > F1 DOS > F2 FreeBSD > F3 FreeBSD > > F3 > empty partition > can't find boot.config > empty partition > can't find boot.help > > wd(0,a)/kernel > boot: > > I can't get it to boot at all. When I boot from a boot floppy my > system is all there, but it won't boot by itsef. I've searched the > emal archives, but not found an answer. > > Anyone got any ideas? This is a known bug with the boot blocks -- it can't handle multiple slices on a disk. Try booting the boot/fixit combo and copying a kernel and /etc over to the other disk so that it can boot both - let the boot blocks pick. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message