Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 19:52:09 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: rchopra@cal.berkeley.edu (Rishi Chopra) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No Kernel? Message-ID: <200311290052.hAT0q9Q21832@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <3FC7B4EA.8080003@cal.berkeley.edu> from "Rishi Chopra" at Nov 28, 2003 12:49:46 PM
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> > 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? First of all, I suppose you really mean to say that you created one slice for the whole disk and within that slice you created two partitions: da0s1a and da0s1b. When you create that slice, you tell fdisk to write an MBR (/boot/mbr) and mark the slice as bootable. Secondly, you should make da0s1a be the boot partition eg root (/). When you do disklabel to create the partition, you tell disklabel to make it bootable and put in the /boot/boot1 boot record. The sysinstall routine will do both of these for you too if you tell it too. If you really want to boot off a non-standard partition, then you should study what you are doing more first. You really need a good reason and understanding of the whole system before doing that. Otherwise, just do it the standard way as indicated above and it will all work just hunky dory. ////jerry
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