Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 16:50:24 AKDT From: Random Liegh <randomliegh@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Please help: Can't boot, "no ufs". Message-ID: <19990628005025.22165.qmail@hotmail.com>
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Hello, everyone On friday I made two attempts to install freebsd: both ended the same way...I can boot and use the programs on my freebsd partition--but only if I am using the shell from the sysinstall program, after it hooks up ppp and asks me what packages. I cannot boot from my hd as the boot loader can't find /boot/loader, /kernel or even /. Here's what appears on my screen: F1 DOS F2 FreeBSD Default: F1 Not ufs Not ufs No /boot/loader >>FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default:0:wd(0,a)/kernel boot: Not ufs No /kernel >>FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default:0:wd(0,a):/kernel boot: I have read pages from freebsd.org and tried different parameters, and I still have the same problem. I'm running this on a system w/ the following specs: 486DX/2 66 8megs ram 1.6G seagate (st31722A) hd creative labs 32x cdrom and I am sharing (or trying to) the hard drive w/ win95. I have my partitions laid out like this: partition |size| fs| mount ------------------------ wd0s1 |480M| dos|** wd0s2a |40M |? |/ wd0s2b |43M |swap|** wd0s2e |20M |? |/var wd0s2f |1040M|? |/usr I know the fs was made, the boot disk can access it and run programs from it, but the boot loader can't find it. I thought the first time it might be because I had my root partition above the 1024 cylinder (my lay out then was my swapfile after my dos partition, followed by one single partition w/ all of freebsd on it): but even putting my root partition lower didn't help. So, is there anything I can do at this point that will get this system to boot properly? Is there a program similar to loadlin that I can get and use (since the bootloader can't find /kernel)? Am I a clueless newbie who should just go back to using linux :((? Thanks in advance for any help you all can give. -sincerely, Random Liegh (who is stuck writing via hotmail 'cos his isp's email crapped out the same day :( ) _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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