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Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 15:24:31 -0600
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From: Oscar Ricardo Silva <oscars@mail.utexas.edu>
Subject: Install of 4.2 fails with "No /boot/loader"
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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



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