From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 29 14:47:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from giroc.albury.net.au (giroc.albury.NET.AU [203.15.244.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF81237B400 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 14:47:18 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nicks@localhost) by giroc.albury.net.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eATMl4n88322; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 09:47:04 +1100 (EST) Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 09:47:04 +1100 From: Nick Slager To: Mike Arthur Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD won't install Message-ID: <20001130094703.A85365@albury.net.au> References: <000d01c059b1$7f40a3c0$8aef120c@nerpnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <000d01c059b1$7f40a3c0$8aef120c@nerpnet.com>; from mikearthur@moscow.com on Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 07:07:24PM -0800 X-Homer: Whoohooooooo! Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thus spake Mike Arthur (mikearthur@moscow.com): > I have been try to install FreeBSD for the past week, using 4.2 and 4.1.1. > Every time I have done so, I get an error after the installation is over, > during boot up. One of three errors have come up. "Invalid Partition > Table," "Missing Operating System" or "No /boot/loader". > > The hardware that I have in the box is a Abit BP6 motherboard, two 40 gig > harddrives, 256 megs of ram, two Celeron 366's, a Netgear NIC, and an ISA > video card. I used to have a BP6, and seem to recall similar trouble when installing. Making sure the root partition was within the first 1024 cylinders on the disk fixed my problem. Note that this was with 4.0-RELEASE and STABLE, though. HTH, Nick -- From a Sun Microsystems bug report (#4102680): "Workaround: don't pound on the mouse like a wild monkey." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message