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Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 16:19:34 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: John Frader <nat@mylanders.com>
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Subject: Re: Boot Failure: bad disklabel 
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On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, John Frader wrote:

> Greetings!
> 
> I asked this question last week, but it seems that any replies did not
> make it to me.  My mail spool possibly hickuped over the weekend.  I hate
> to trouble you all again, but could you forward any ideas to me?
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 23:18:37 -0600 (CST)
> From: John Frader <nat@mylanders.com>
> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Boot Failure: bad disklabel
> 
> Greetings!
> 
> I have an NEC Versa V/50 laptop with 16 meg of ram and a Toshiba 250 meg
> hard drive.  I'm attempting to install a minimal FreeBSD system (just the
> /bin distribution).  I have successfully gone through the novice install,
> and it all seemed to work.  I installed the normal boot manager, and used
> the "work and play with others" option.
> 
> However, when I reboot, I get the following error:
> 
> bad disklabel
> cant find boot.config
> cant find boot.help

Contrary to popular belief, your install failed miserably.  It looks like
FreeBSD was not installed in any way.  Reinstall.  Note that you *must*
dedicate a slice to FreeBSD; you cannot house it inside of a DOS
partition.

Doug White                               
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | www.freebsd.org


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