From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 25 12:36:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca (cr677933-a.ktchnr1.on.wave.home.com [24.42.130.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AF1E37B424 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 12:36:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (matt@localhost) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.10.1/8.9.2) with SMTP id e8PJVX879600; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 15:31:33 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from matt@xena.gsicomp.on.ca) Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 15:31:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Matthew Emmerton To: "R.Mason" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot Problems on Installation In-Reply-To: <39CFA67A.CB8EF436@worldnet.att.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, R.Mason wrote: > When installing 'FreeBSD 4.0 according to chapter 5 of the Complete > FreeBSD , on rebooting my screen reads as follows: > > F1 FreeBSD > > Default: F1 > > No /boot/loader > > >>FreeBSD/i386 BOOT > Default: 0:ad(0,a)/kernel > boot: > No /kernel > > >>FreeBSD/i386 Boot > Default: 0:ad(0,a)/kernel > boot:_ > > I've repeatedly checked that the disk geometry and translation mode is > correct in the bios and that the correct geometry is reflected in the > Fdisk utility and that the BSD slice is set bootable. Yet at reboot the > same screen always appears. I'm attempting to install on a P60 with 24mb > RAM and a 420mb IDE h/d. I beleive the the BSD kernel version is 3.1. > Any assistance that anyone could provide would be greatly appreciated. I have had a similar problem on a 3.4-R (upgraded from 2.2.6 -> 3.0) Try typing '/boot/loader' at the boot prompt. That's what I have to do, and from there on, it works fine. -- Matthew Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message