From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 4 12:47:18 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BFCF16A41F for ; Thu, 4 Aug 2005 12:47:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from mh2.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8E3E43D45 for ; Thu, 4 Aug 2005 12:47:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [10.177.171.220] (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by mh2.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j74ClG89050215; Thu, 4 Aug 2005 07:47:16 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <42F20E48.1050302@centtech.com> Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 07:47:04 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050802 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fabio Bucci References: <8394b317050804004965ebb255@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <8394b317050804004965ebb255@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Invalid partition X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 12:47:18 -0000 Fabio Bucci wrote: > Hi, > this is the first time i install FreeBSD. > I'm a newbie. > :-) > > I've 2 HD, the first with 8GB and other with 40GB. > I boot FreeBSD with CD installer and i created a slice on each HD. > > On the first disk i created the following partitions: > - /var > - / > - /usr > - swap > > While on the second disk i created only one partition called mounted as /disk1 > > When installation finished, i reboot my pc and return this error: > > Invalid partition > Invalid partition > No /boot/loader > > Where did i mistake????? Sounds like you didn't install a boot loader.. I think you can do that from the install cd. Boot off it, go into the partitioning area, then exit it - I think it will prompt you for MBR, boot loader, or none. Pick one of the first two.. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------