Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 21:13:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Clare & Peter Stubbs <clarenpete@sol.co.uk> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: empty partition/can't find boot.config & boot.help Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980419211222.8564A-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199804192305.AAA18928@gnasher.sol.co.uk>
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On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Clare & Peter Stubbs wrote: > > This is a known bug with the boot blocks -- it can't handle multiple > > slices on a disk. Try booting the boot/fixit combo and copying a > > kernel and /etc over to the other disk so that it can boot both - > > let the boot blocks pick. > > Thanks for the suggestion. I tried it without any luck. In the end I > deleted the new partition. I still get the boot.config and boot.ini > messaged, but the system now boots and runs fine. I'll have to put > the new space on another disk. You can quiet /boot.config by just touching it and making it empty. boot.ini doesn't exist, you may be thinking of boot.help, which you can copy off the Life Filesystem CDROM or similiarly make empty. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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