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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--ftEhullJWpWg/VHq Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 12:49:46PM -0800, Rishi Chopra wrote: > After installing FreeBSD I get the following message: >=20 > No /boot/loader >=20 > FreeBSD/i386 boot > Default: 0:da(0,a)/kernel > boot: >=20 > When installing the OS, I created one partition using the entire disk=20 > (in this case a 560GB arrray) and created two mount points (256M 'swap'= =20 > 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 --ftEhullJWpWg/VHq Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/x7aMWry0BWjoQKURAlBkAKCy6Yj0a1rLlYw0FdjLpe8yC7+CxwCg49d7 yzWIvuUH8Qt/ShIUUAmDWfM= =mmO/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ftEhullJWpWg/VHq--
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