From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 14 5:49:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 547C437B400 for ; Tue, 14 May 2002 05:49:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from walton.maths.tcd.ie by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id ; 14 May 2002 13:49:53 +0100 (BST) To: "Byron L. Sonne" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: trying to fix missing /boot/loader error, no luck In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 13 May 2002 22:06:50 EDT." <3CE0713A.15124DE2@rogers.com> Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 13:49:52 +0100 From: Ian Dowse Message-ID: <200205141349.aa56124@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <3CE0713A.15124DE2@rogers.com>, "Byron L. Sonne" writes: >So I tried a few things, notably "disklabel -B ad0" and "boot0cfg -Bv >ad0". I rebooted after each and I still get the "no /boot/loader" and >"meta data missing" errors. If I do a dir of /boot, I can see loader and >a bunch of other things. I then tried using sysinstall to replace the >MBR and then tried "boot0cfg -Bv ad0" but still no luck. Try "disklabel -B ad0s1" (assuming slice 1 is your FreeBSD slice). Also, do you have a very large root partition (> 8GB) or does your root partition end more than 8GB from the start of the disk? If so, the contents of /boot/loader might not be accessible using the BIOS. The normal recommendation is for a small (128-256MB) root filesystem to avoid such problems. Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message