From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 12 8: 3:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from correo.tamnet.com.mx (correo.tamnet.com.mx [200.34.205.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5DF2153A9 for ; Wed, 12 May 1999 08:03:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adepoo@tamnet.com.mx) Received: from correo.tamnet.com.mx (correo.tamnet.com.mx [200.34.205.20]) by correo.tamnet.com.mx (8.9.1a/8.9.1a) with SMTP id KAA11825 for ; Wed, 12 May 1999 10:03:18 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 10:03:17 -0500 (CDT) From: Alberto de Poo Bas To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: no /boot/loader problem Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm installing 3.1R on a couple of 4GB Seagate Medallist disks (from a dumped installation), I make a only one partition of the disk and in that I make a / fs and a swap, my problem is: If I do the partition of the entire disk (in the mode that some space is left in the front of the disk), then when I boot up with that disk, an error show telling that no /boot/loader exist, and then the boot prompt show and I can boot the kernel (but everything I have on the loader do not work). If I do the partition and all for FreeBSD (in the mode all space is the same partition, no space left at front), then everything go ok. I have to make a disk that need to have a DOS partition, so I'm stuck with problem of the no /boot/loader Can someone know what is this? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message