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Date:      Fri, 08 Sep 2000 11:38:36 -0700
From:      TomQ <zippy@tomquinn.com>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: first time install trouble
Message-ID:  <39B9322C.2676B0EA@tomquinn.com>
References:  <39B6E795.FB8919E3@tomquinn.com> <20000907021522.T18862@fw.wintelcom.net>

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> * TomQ <zippy@tomquinn.com> [000906 17:55] wrote:
> > Good day. This is my first experience w/ BSD and I am having a little
> > trouble getting going. I am trying to install FreeBSD 4 on a Compaq
> > Proliant PL1600R. It is PII w/ 64M and a 9G SCSI. I am booted with the
> > CDRom and ran through all the instructions as well as followed the
> > written ones in "the Complete FreeBSD" by Lehay. Everything went well
> > until I try to reboot from the HD. I am getting this error:
> >
> > F1
> > No /boot/loader
> > >>FreeBSD/i386.BOOT
> > Default:0:da(0,a)/Kernel
> > boot:
> > No /Kernel
> >
> > Any guidance would be appreciated.
>
> You didn't really say which options in the installer you followed.
>
> If you chose 'dangerously dedicated' disk partitioning then try
> without, I've known some people that have gotten things working by
> not choosing that option.
>
> --
> -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
> "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk."

Ok I am getting the message now "Installation completed with some errors". I
VTY1 back and the only thing that looks like an error is this statement:

DEBUG: Notify: Copying the boot floppy to /stand on root filesystem

Is that the error? Thanks for the help..

-TomQ




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