From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 2 18:44: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f263.hotmail.com [207.82.251.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DC41B14D2B for ; Mon, 2 Aug 1999 18:43:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kf7nn@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 93150 invoked by uid 0); 3 Aug 1999 01:43:14 -0000 Message-ID: <19990803014314.93149.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 24.1.216.237 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Mon, 02 Aug 1999 18:43:14 PDT X-Originating-IP: [24.1.216.237] From: "george vagner" To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: upgrade blues Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 18:43:14 PDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I just upgraded my server from 2.2.8-stable to 3.2-release by installing another hard drive and booting from the 3.2 floppies and installing over the net because 3.2 cannot seem to find my cdrom, looking thru the erratta.txt i didnt see anything about not finding atapi cdroms in it, funny thing is i installed 2.2.7 from the very same cdrom drive. the mb is an IWILL p55b which did have the serial port nondetection problem way back when... my other problem is that upon boot up i see a message saying no /boot/loader then it goes on to boot /kernel from da0 first i need to make sure that the /boot/loader thing is fixed and then i will address the cdrom. i am in the process of cvsuping to 3.2-stable to see if that helps the cdrom get found but will need your help on the boot/loader thing since i have no knowledge of how it works. how do i fix the no /boot/loader error message. _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message