From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 19 21:13:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA09950 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 21:13:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA09918 for ; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 04:13:12 GMT (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA08572; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 21:13:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 21:13:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Clare & Peter Stubbs cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: empty partition/can't find boot.config & boot.help In-Reply-To: <199804192305.AAA18928@gnasher.sol.co.uk> 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 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