Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 18:49:34 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: bwolter@students.depaul.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot problems Message-ID: <39064B2E.7E9F209F@3-cities.com> References: <39064A3C.CD113490@shrike.depaul.edu>
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bwwolter wrote: > > hi, > > i'm having trouble installing (or should i say booting) freeBSD 4.0. > The installation process seems to work properly. The filesystems all > appear to have been written to my hard disk and i recieve a message > confirming that my installation has been successfully completed, yet > upon rebooting the system the boot manager cannot find the proper boot > image. it recognizes the freeBSD partition, but says that it cannot > find any operating system. if anyone could offer some advice it would > be much appriciated. > > btw, if it's any help, i have installed freeBSD to coexist with a Linux > distribution (SuSE). perhaps this is the root of the problem? at any > rate, any help would be much appriciated. Did you install it such that the / partition was in front of cylinder 1024. This will fail during boot if it is not true. The slice can run over cylinder 1023 but the / partition can't. Also, did you install it on your first drive (ad0, da0 or what)? Kent > > thanks, > brian > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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