From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 14 08:11:08 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 495E716A4CE for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 08:11:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pd2mo3so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F30C143D1D for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 08:11:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mfnielsen@shaw.ca) Received: from pd3mr6so.prod.shaw.ca (pd3mr6so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.21])2004))freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 02:07:56 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml9so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.7]) by pd3mr6so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0I5K003I8EL8XX50@pd3mr6so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 02:07:56 -0600 (MDT) Received: from Dell (S010600045ad80051.cg.shawcable.net [68.144.21.52]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with SMTP id <0I5K00F41EL3M9@l-daemon> for freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 02:07:56 -0600 (MDT) Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 02:07:57 -0600 From: Margaret Nielsen To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org Message-id: <00d301c4b1c4$ec589070$6601a8c0@Dell> MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-priority: Normal Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: invalid partition X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 08:11:08 -0000 I an trying to install 4.10 on an old Pentium with 2 small hdd. There = was no operating system loaded so I don't know much about the box and = not sure how to get any. No problem with the kernel config. Made just = one partition. Accepted the default labelling. Selected option to use = FreeBSD bootloader. =20 on reboot get: invalid partition invalid partition no /boot/loader >>FreeBSD/i386/ Boot Default: 1:ad(1,a)/kernel Boot: What I'm I doing wrong? Where can I find some help?