From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 28 18:34: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA85137B403 for ; Sun, 28 Oct 2001 18:34:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76862BD07; Sun, 28 Oct 2001 18:34:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA02077; Sun, 28 Oct 2001 18:34:01 -0800 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id f9T2WrU49967; Sun, 28 Oct 2001 18:32:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: "lam_andy" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation References: <3BD9DFCE@webmail.bentley.edu> From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 28 Oct 2001 18:32:53 -0800 In-Reply-To: <3BD9DFCE@webmail.bentley.edu> Message-ID: Lines: 41 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 "lam_andy" writes: > I did the installation by doing the cd-rom boot. Partition for BSD was > created, the status was set to active and bootable( "CA"), partition type 3, > subtype 165. I'm not familiar with "type/subtype"; only "type" and 165 is it for FreeBSD. Maybe that "3" is the primary partition number (1, 2, 3 or 4). But otherwise, OK. > Inside the BSD partition, I used the auto Default for all. > I set / for 20MB UFS Y > /var for 50MB UFS Y > /usr for "the rest of the space" UFS Y > also a SWAP is there > > I installed the boot manager. Looks OK. (I would probably double or triple that / size, but that's OK and your error msg below indicates a different problem.) > I selected the x-user installations and it did say it completed, but when i > select all the distributions, it says installation completed but with errors. That's unclear to me. I assume your first install failed for lack of disk space and your second one seemed to succeed after you asked for less software to be installed. > When I boot up my laptop the boot manager does come up and allow me to select > the OS. When I choose BSD, i get the error "NO / KERNAL" (boot: -v). The install obviously failed. Not much to go on here. Most likely some partitioning/disk-related problem. Is "/" fully inside the first 1024 disk cylinders? (Maybe that's no longer required - I've forgotten.) Can you get a boot prompt and play with the boot commands? (Eg, "?" and whatever the "list" command is to see if there is a root directory that would normally hold the file named "kernel" (and other things).) Sorry I can't say more. If you don't figure it out on your own, try posting again and maybe give more info if you have it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message