From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 19 16: 5:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.va.home.com (ha1.rdc1.va.home.com [24.2.32.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A97D37BFED for ; Fri, 19 May 2000 16:05:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from john.baldwin.cx ([24.6.244.187]) by mail.rdc1.va.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.00 201-229-116) with ESMTP id <20000519230505.GGNG22611.mail.rdc1.va.home.com@john.baldwin.cx>; Fri, 19 May 2000 16:05:05 -0700 Content-Length: 818 X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 19:05:57 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Brad Waite Subject: RE: Boot Problems Cc: questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20000519230505.GGNG22611.mail.rdc1.va.home.com@john.baldwin.cx> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 19-May-00 Brad Waite wrote: > Hi all, > > Finally got 4.0 installed on my 40G (apparently was a cable problem). Now it > doesn't want to boot. I used fdisk to set slice a bootable, but it can't seem > to find what it needs: Hmm, it looks like your / file system may not be below the 1024 cylinder limit, which is about equal to 8.4 gig with LBA enabled. > No /boot/loader > >>> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT > Default: 0:ad(0,a)/kernel > boot: > No /kernel > > Where's my problem? Could it be a problem with my ad0s1a being 3652M? > > I've installed dozens of FBSD's before, but I feel pretty sheepish on this one. > > -Brad -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message