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Subject: misc/26163: cannot complete install. and boot 
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>Number:         26163
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       cannot complete install. and boot
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Mar 27 21:20:01 PST 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Pietro Anastasio Nicolaidi
>Release:        3.3
>Organization:
>Environment:
No /boot/loader

>Description:
		March 27th, 2000
                 p_a_nicolaidi@yahoo.it


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Dear Ms/Mr,
         I've triesd to install Fbsd 3.3 (a, not copyed, cd + 2 floppy)
          I've a pentium166 with 1.3Gb(0.83Gb FAT, 0.45Gb bsd)
           At the end the sw inform me that the installation is completed with some errors.

         Rebooting Win95 still work (..woh!), but asking to start unix the following meassage           apprear:

--	--		--		--		--		--
No /boot/loader

>How-To-Repeat:
	

repeating installation or boot
>Fix:

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
 >>FreeBSD/i386 BOOT
 default: 0:wd(0,a)/Kernel
 boot:
 No/Kernel
 >>FreeBSD/i386 BOOT
 
 default: 0:wd(0,a)/Kernel
 boot:
 >>FreeBSD/i386 BOOT
 default: 0:wd(0,a)/Kernel
 boot:
 No/Kernel
 >>FreeBSD/i386 BOOT
 
 default: 0:wd(0,a)/Kernel
 boot:
 --		--		--		--		--		--
 And if I try to type something similar to 0wd(1,a) i get again the last 2 row.
 
 
 
 At pg.50 of the CD/book/book.txt is written:
 "...Make  particularly  sure  that  the  end of the root partition 
 falls within the first 504 MB.  There is no way to ensure that the 
 kernel and bootstrap will  be at the beginning of the partition. 
 ..."
 But I cannot delete everything and change the partition (that take
  too time and now I have to study a lot; in fact I had to learn 
 unix, this is the reason for which i would like to have that
  also at home) 
 
 
 Thanks in advance to anyone could find the time to write me.
 
 
            Kind regards, free world of ideas!
  
                          Pietro anastasio nicolaidi
 
 
                          
 
 

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