From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 26 23: 6:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3FF937B400 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 23:06:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.chd.lv (mail.chd.lv [159.148.9.236]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CE5A43E4A for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 23:06:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jurgis@delfi.lv) Received: from jurgis (jurgis.chdlocal [192.168.47.37]) by mail.chd.lv with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id R409CXGY; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 09:06:39 +0300 Message-ID: <001d01c24d8f$e87b1e00$252fa8c0@jurgis> From: "Jurgis" To: "Giorgos Keramidas" Cc: References: <000f01c24ccd$385de740$252fa8c0@jurgis> <20020826182647.GE756@hades.hell.gr> Subject: Re: Booting problem: No /boot/loader Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 09:06:39 +0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 Thank you, it helped! Jurgis ----- Original Message ----- From: "Giorgos Keramidas" To: "Jurgis" Cc: Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 9:26 PM Subject: Re: Booting problem: No /boot/loader > On 2002-08-26 09:53 +0000, Jurgis wrote: > > I have and old IBM PS/ValuePoint with 486DX33 16MB RAM and > > 1.7GB HDD. > > > > I installed FreeBSD 4.5 but it displays: > > No /boot/loader > > when booting and continues to boot kernel. Because of that I cannot > > use "top" and my network card does not work. > > > > As I understand problem is connected with 528MB limit in BIOS. > > /boot/boot2 cannot find /boot/loader and therefore /boot/kernel.conf > > is not executed (network card is configured there). > > > > I configured the disk like this: > > - 64M > > / - the rest of the disk > > It's probably a good idea to have more than one partitions there. > Can you try making partitions like this? > > Size(MB) Mount-point > 200 / > 1700-200-64 /usr > 64 swap > > This way you'll have some space in / for /tmp, /var and basic stuff > needed to boot, and do basic work and still avoid hitting the 512MB > limit. The sizes are not by any means "optimal" for your use of the > machine (since I don't know what it's supposed to do), but you get the > basic idea. > > -- > FreeBSD: The Power to Serve <> http://www.FreeBSD.org > FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #0: Wed Aug 21 22:08:19 EEST 2002 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message