From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 27 12: 4:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from webmail.bentley.edu (webmail.bentley.edu [141.133.112.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D40337B407 for ; Sat, 27 Oct 2001 12:04:34 -0700 (PDT) X-WebMail-UserID: lam_andy@LNMTA.bentley.edu Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 14:59:18 -0400 From: "lam_andy" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-EXP32-SerialNo: 00003008 Subject: Installation Message-ID: <3BD9DFCE@webmail.bentley.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: WebMail (Hydra) SMTP v3.61.05 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, You can probably tell that I'm a newbie with the BSD OS. I am trying to install BSD on my laptop where I already have win2k pro on it. I am hoping to use the boot manager to enable me to select which os to use when I boot up. I have attempted to follow the steps in the FreeBSD book 3rd Ed but I cant get it to work. I did the installation by doing the cd-rom boot. Partition for BSD was created, the status was set to active and bootable( "CA"), partition type 3, subtype 165. Inside the BSD partition, I used the auto Default for all. I set / for 20MB UFS Y /var for 50MB UFS Y /usr for "the rest of the space" UFS Y also a SWAP is there I installed the boot manager. I selected the x-user installations and it did say it completed, but when i select all the distributions, it says installation completed but with errors. When I boot up my laptop the boot manager does come up and allow me to select the OS. When I choose BSD, i get the error "NO / KERNAL" (boot: -v). Any ideas what I did wrong during installation? Thanks, ~Andy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message