Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 16:22:08 AKDT From: Random Liegh <randomliegh@hotmail.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: "no ufs", aggravated beyond belief Message-ID: <19990630002209.44642.qmail@hotmail.com>
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Hi This is _NOT_ fun. I have tried downloading freebsd 3 times so far and each time I have gotten the same message: "no ufs". I have formatted the drives properly, and installed the boot loader. I used the "novice" install option and did not skip any of the steps, but still cannot boot from my hard drive, even though the install disks can read the hard drive and mount it just fine. I'm trying to get this to run on a 486 that has the following specs: 486DX2/66 cpu Seagate 1.6G hd (with ontrack diskmanager--worked w/ previous versions of FreeBSD 2.x and 3.0) 8 megs ram creative labs 32x cdrom. This is a copy of the error message I get on start up: I wrote this down after the second attempt, but it hasn't changed at all from then to now: F1 DOS F2 FreeBSD Default: F1 Not ufs Not ufs No /boot/loader >>FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default:0:wd(0,a)/kernel boot: Not ufs No /kernel >>FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default:0:wd(0,a):/kernel boot: I had thought that it might be because I had my partitions set up so that the kernel resided above the 1024 cylynder mark; but I have (again!! Grrrrrrrrr) repartitioned my disks and I have to root partition in the 423m and 463M area. I've tried entering different options into the bootmenu, with no success: I've tried running "bootinst.exe boot.bin" and then using the install disk to write the scheme out to disk, to no success...I have no idea at all now, and to add insult to injury it seems neither my isp's mail or hotmail.com can handle addresses such as ".ORG". As I said before, I have gotten FreeBSD to work on this machine in the past, and I have been running linux off and on since 96 (and not had anything close to this problem there).I do not have any ideas at this point.....any help anyone can give would be appreciated, and I can furnish any further info you need. Sincerly, A now-very-insane-FreeBSD-newbie _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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