From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 15 9:31:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hawkins.cba.uni.edu (hawkins.cba.uni.edu [134.161.248.148]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75C394B74 for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2000 09:25:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from hawkins.cba.uni.edu (really [127.0.0.1]) by hawkins.cba.uni.edu via in.smtpd with esmtp (ident hawk using rfc1413) id (Debian Smail3.2.0.102) for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2000 11:25:36 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: /boot/loader not found on third partition -------- Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 11:25:35 -0600 From: hawk@hawkins.cba.uni.edu Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG All was well when I had 3.2 installed with FreeBSD on the third partition. I upgraded to 3.3, and it could no longer find /boot/loader. This has continued with a clean install of 3. (I needed to move partitions around). The loader correctly offers three choices of linux, dos, and freebsd for the three partitions. It will remember to keep defaults properly as well. However, when trying to boot freebsd, it returns the error "invalid partition", and defaults to (0,a) rather than (0,c). If I manually type in the wd(0,c), with or without /boot/loader appended, it successfully boots. But the problem returns the next time, when (0,a) will again be the default. I've told it to reinstall the boot loader several times. I've compiled the kernel successfully as well. Nonetheless, the problem persists. Any ideas? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message