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Date:      Fri, 28 Nov 2003 12:56:46 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Rishi Chopra <rchopra@cal.berkeley.edu>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: No Kernel?
Message-ID:  <20031128205646.GB86708@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <3FC7B4EA.8080003@cal.berkeley.edu>
References:  <3FC7B4EA.8080003@cal.berkeley.edu>

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On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 12:49:46PM -0800, Rishi Chopra wrote:
> After installing FreeBSD I get the following message:
> 
> No /boot/loader
> 
> FreeBSD/i386 boot
> Default: 0:da(0,a)/kernel
> boot:
> 
> When installing the OS, I created one partition using the entire disk 
> (in this case a 560GB arrray) and created two mount points (256M 'swap' 
> as da0s1a and 559G '/' as da0s1b.  How can I get the OS to boot?

OK, you've done this backwards: the a partition is traditionally used
for / and b for swap.  You should be able to boot by telling the
kernel to boot from the b partition though:

da(0,b)/boot/loader

See the boot manpage once you've booted to see how to make the change
permanent.

Kris

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