From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 24 7:20:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.utexas.edu (wb2-a.mail.utexas.edu [128.83.126.136]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A84D737B403 for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 07:20:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 11358 invoked by uid 0); 24 Oct 2001 14:20:54 -0000 Received: from chepe.cc.utexas.edu (HELO oscar.mail.utexas.edu) (128.83.135.25) by umbs-smtp-2 with SMTP; 24 Oct 2001 14:20:54 -0000 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20011024091219.024423c8@mail.utexas.edu> X-Sender: oscars@mail.utexas.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 09:19:37 -0500 To: questions@freebsd.org From: Oscar Ricardo Silva Subject: Installation of FreeBSD 4.4 fails on 20GB drive Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a machine with an AMD Athlon 1.2GHz processor, 256MB of RAM, two ATA100 hard drives (20GB, 40GB) on the first IDE controller and a CD drive on the second. These controllers are ATA66 and ATA100 compatible and so the drives are detected at ATA100. I'm attempting to install FreeBSD 4.4 but the install fails. I actually get through the entire install, I see that files are being copied to the slices I've created but on reboot I get: Invalid Partition No /boot/loader >>FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default: 0:ad(0,a)/kernel boot: No /kernel >>FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default: 0:ad(0,a)/kernel boot: The drives are set to AUTO in the BIOS and they're detected as being in LBA mode. I have no problem during install, I can see both drives, partition them, label them (/, /var, /usr, etc). I've seen something like this before and I even tried creating a small 50MB partition at the beginning of the boot disk, creating "/boot" on this partition and then creating the other slices on the rest of the disk but still the same error. Any ideas/suggestions would be extremely appreciated. Oscar To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message