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Subject: Booting problem: No /boot/loader
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 09:53:01 +0300
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Hello!

I have and old IBM PS/ValuePoint with 486DX33 16MB RAM and
1.7GB HDD.

I installed FreeBSD 4.5 but it displays:
No /boot/loader
when booting and continues to boot kernel.
Because of that I cannot use "top" and my network card
does not work.

As I understand problem is connected with 528MB limit in BIOS.
/boot/boot2 cannot find /boot/loader and therefore /boot/kernel.conf
is not executed (network card is configured there).

I configured the disk like this:
<swap> - 64M
/ - the rest of the disk

maybe I needed to make something like this:
/boot ~ 20M
/ - the rest of the disk
<swap> - 64M

I found a link telling that it is not a problem:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/install.html#DISK-MANAG
ER
But I could not find out how to fix it.

BIOS shows that it is 528MB disk.
Freebsd finds that it is 1705MB with 3303/16/63 (C/H/S)

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanx!

Jurgis





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