From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 11 10:21:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from oracle.dsuper.net (oracle.dsuper.net [205.205.255.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B83937BB88 for ; Thu, 11 May 2000 10:21:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bancroft@oracle.dsuper.net) Received: from localhost (bancroft@localhost) by oracle.dsuper.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA04856 for ; Thu, 11 May 2000 13:21:43 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 13:21:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Jason Terlecki To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: HELP! 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 Goodday People, Please someone help me out as I am getting really desperate. I am trying to setup a server with an 40 Gigs IDE drive under FreeBSD4.0-Release. Now, this is how I am trying to partition it. 1st Slice 250M 2nd Slice the rest this is how I am trying to put the mounts 1st slice 243M FS / 2nd slice 773M SWAP 100M FS /var the rest FS /usr Now, it formats the drive and installs, but I am still not able to get the thing to boot. Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong?? there is an unused slice of 63 blocks at the start of the drive. Should that be placed as active? I tried putting the first bsd slice as active, could that be the problem? Yes, I am tried it with the boot manager & the standard mbr. Please, I need some input soon. If I did not post enough information, please tell me what I should be adding. Though I am not on any precise deadline, I would like to get this done soon enough Jason wouldbe sysadmin that is about to declare himself a burgerflipper instead. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message