Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 16:19:34 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: John Frader <nat@mylanders.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot Failure: bad disklabel Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9811121618010.24229-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981111103838.19552A-100000@mylanders.com>
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On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, John Frader wrote: > Greetings! > > I asked this question last week, but it seems that any replies did not > make it to me. My mail spool possibly hickuped over the weekend. I hate > to trouble you all again, but could you forward any ideas to me? > > Thank you! > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 23:18:37 -0600 (CST) > From: John Frader <nat@mylanders.com> > To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Boot Failure: bad disklabel > > Greetings! > > I have an NEC Versa V/50 laptop with 16 meg of ram and a Toshiba 250 meg > hard drive. I'm attempting to install a minimal FreeBSD system (just the > /bin distribution). I have successfully gone through the novice install, > and it all seemed to work. I installed the normal boot manager, and used > the "work and play with others" option. > > However, when I reboot, I get the following error: > > bad disklabel > cant find boot.config > cant find boot.help Contrary to popular belief, your install failed miserably. It looks like FreeBSD was not installed in any way. Reinstall. Note that you *must* dedicate a slice to FreeBSD; you cannot house it inside of a DOS partition. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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