Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 15:24:31 -0600 From: Oscar Ricardo Silva <oscars@mail.utexas.edu> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Install of 4.2 fails with "No /boot/loader" Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20010122151744.00b1d720@mail.utexas.edu>
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I've seen some mention of the "No /boot/loader" message but haven't really found any fix. Here's what's happening: We have been attempting to install FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE on a pc but after the install, we get the following: 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: The machine is a 650MHz Pentium III, with 256MB of RAM one 3COM PCI 3C905C-TX and the following disk configuration: Primary master: IBM DPTA-373420 Primary slave: IBM DPTA-373420 Secondary master: IBM DPTA-373420 Secondary slave: Toshiba CD-ROM The IBM drives have a capacity of 32864MB. In the BIOS, I've tried setting the mode on the disks to: Auto, LBA and LARGE. In addition, when using FDISK in the install, I set each disk to dangerously dedicated. The operating system is installed on the primary master. I've also played around with the size of the root partition, initially setting it to 5GB but now going down to 2GB. After each install, we get the same error mentioned above. Any thoughts? Suggestions? Pointers? Any help would be extremely appreciated. Thanks, Oscar To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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