From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 8 11:38:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kite.ny.breakaway.com (kite.ny.breakaway.com [216.32.220.223]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C4AD37B509 for ; Fri, 8 Sep 2000 11:38:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tomquinn.com ([63.200.51.3]) by kite.ny.breakaway.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-58733U1000L100S0V35) with ESMTP id com; Fri, 8 Sep 2000 14:38:09 -0400 Message-ID: <39B9322C.2676B0EA@tomquinn.com> Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2000 11:38:36 -0700 From: TomQ X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD NSCPCD47 (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: first time install trouble References: <39B6E795.FB8919E3@tomquinn.com> <20000907021522.T18862@fw.wintelcom.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > * TomQ [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