From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 23 12:16:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from marlo.eagle.ca (marlo.eagle.ca [209.167.16.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31BDF37B400 for ; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 12:16:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from phantom (phantom.eagle.ca [209.167.16.15]) by marlo.eagle.ca (8.11.0/8.11.0) with SMTP id f0NKG9U40776; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 15:16:10 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from freymann@eagle.ca) Message-ID: <011101c08579$6fc28550$0f10a7d1@phantom> Reply-To: "Gerald T. Freymann" From: "Gerald T. Freymann" To: "Oscar Ricardo Silva" Cc: References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010123112121.00b535c0@mail.utexas.edu> Subject: Re: Installation of FreeBSD fails on machine with large disks Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 15:16:57 -0500 Organization: eagle.ca 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 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I think I ran into the same problem not too long ago. When you did the initial setup... In the FDISK Partition Editor, choose 'A' to use the entire disk. At the warning, choose 'NO' to accept dangerously dedicated disk. (We want no MS-DOS partitions here!) Press 'Q' to continue I have just updated at least 4 boxes in our company, and one suffered from the problem you described. After a couple full loads and getting foiled at the reboot, I finally just selected A for entire disk and voila. -Gerry --original message The drives are all 32GB and all on the ATA-33 bus. I have tried installing FreeBSD 4.1 and 4.2 but each time, when the machine boots after the install, I get a prompt: No /boot/loader >>FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default: 0:ad(0,a)/kernel boot: No /kernel >>FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default: 0:ad(0,a)/kernel boot: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message