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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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