From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 19 16:12:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hobbes.ssbaptist.net (linux.ssbaptist.net [216.17.141.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2022B37B6B1; Fri, 19 May 2000 16:12:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brad@ssbaptist.net) Received: from localhost (brad@localhost) by hobbes.ssbaptist.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA12734; Fri, 19 May 2000 10:16:20 -0600 Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 10:16:20 -0600 (MDT) From: Brad Waite X-Sender: brad@hobbes To: John Baldwin Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: Boot Problems In-Reply-To: <20000519230505.GGNG22611.mail.rdc1.va.home.com@john.baldwin.cx> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 19 May 2000, John Baldwin wrote: > > 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. / is on ad0s1a which is defined 3652M, well below the 1024 boundary. I'm at a loss. When I use DOS's 'fdisk /mbr', I can't even get the FBSD boot prompt. I'm now trying to reinstall on a different drive, but I'm now having problems extracting stuff from the CD. > > 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