From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 14 8:16: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fep04-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com (fep04-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com [66.185.86.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C9CF37B401 for ; Tue, 14 May 2002 08:15:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rogers.com ([24.112.135.54]) by fep04-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com (InterMail vM.5.01.04.13 201-253-122-122-113-20020313) with ESMTP id <20020514151553.POZ4442.fep04-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com@rogers.com>; Tue, 14 May 2002 11:15:53 -0400 Message-ID: <3CE12980.2A6BDC58@rogers.com> Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 11:13:04 -0400 From: "Byron L. Sonne" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ian Dowse Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: trying to fix missing /boot/loader error, no luck References: <200205141349.aa56124@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH PLAIN at fep04-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com from [24.112.135.54] using ID at Tue, 14 May 2002 11:15:53 -0400 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. Yes, since this is a home machine I used a simple partitioning scheme; other than swap all I have is /boot @ 256MB and / @ 18GB. I've done the same thing in the past with earlier versions of FreeBSD (4.2 & 4.3) and never encountered this problem, so I'm not sure I understand what is going on here. Did something change in this regard from earlier versions? I'm not opposed to rebuilding the system (it's only a few days old) but I'd like to avoid that if possible :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message