Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 09:19:09 -0400 From: Steve Neuharth <steve.neuharth@webhelp.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> Subject: Re: can't load kernel (?) Message-ID: <394E1DCD.7A08BB0D@webhelp.com> References: <394A53EF.A36C3FE1@webhelp.com> <394A7DF7.BBFBD5D7@3-cities.com>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------B6C65B53298FEAE8869BE429 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Kent Stewart wrote: > > Steve Neuharth wrote: > > > > I've installed FreeBSD 4.0 on a Compaq Proliant 1600... the install runs > > fine till I reboot. > > > > I get.... > > > > Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf > > Unable to load kernel: > > Aborted! > > / > > Hit [Enter] to boot immediately or..... > > Booting [kernel]... > > can't load 'kernel' > > I even tried compiled a custom kernel and installed it before > > rebooting... no luck. I installed the latest SoftPaq BIOS upgrade for > > the hardware. RedHat6.2 installs and boots fine (but I'd rather use > > FreeBSD, of course). > > Any Ideas?... anyone? > I would think at first that you have a / partition that extends beyond > cylinder 1023, which is ~8.4GB. You didn't give us any information as > to your system structure, i.e., HD's and which drive you are > installing FreeBSD on. I've got 3 SCSI drives installed.... one 9.1 Gb and two 18.2 Gb. The 9 Gb drive (idad0) has the system on it... sliced up with 100 Mb /, 50Mb /var and the rest is /usr. I've made the two 18 Gb drives one big-ass raid 0 volume (idad1) with the compaq RAID config software.... which is mounted an /usr/local/ftproot. I do not currently have the Compaq system Partition installed on the file system (for simplicity's sake). > BTW, you can have a fairly large FreeBSD slice but you have to have / > separated from the other filesystems. My / is 100MB and is 1st > partition in all cases. I have the 4.0 slice installed in the 2nd HD > partition in one system and as the 3rd partition in another. They are > all on drive ata0 and the FreeBSD slice covers the break point of > cylinder 1024. How does this 1024 cylinder thing work?.... /root must not cover this cyl? must be smaller than 0-1024? I thought that this was an IDE only problem. This type of problem seems to be a possible cause of my probs... since I can boot off of CD and floppy.... I don't think that it is the kernel itself, rather the way the kernel is being read off of the volume... bear in mind that I'm using Compaq's SmartRAID Software to configure my drives. --------------B6C65B53298FEAE8869BE429 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="steve.neuharth.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Steve Neuharth Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="steve.neuharth.vcf" begin:vcard n:Neuharth;Steve tel;cell:612-845-7462 tel;fax:612-294-1475 tel;home:612-872-6531 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://www.webhelp.com org:Webhelp.com;Systems Operations adr:;;530 N. 3rd Street;Minneapolis;Minnesota;55404;USA version:2.1 email;internet:steve.neuharth@webhelp.com title:UNIX/Solaris/Web Administrator x-mozilla-cpt:;5760 fn:Steve Neuharth end:vcard --------------B6C65B53298FEAE8869BE429-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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