Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 09:40:49 -0400 From: "Steve Friedrich" <SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com> To: "CHARL" <croftonc@PARACHUTE.WCAPE.GOV.ZA>, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: installation problems Message-ID: <199809161418.KAA20390@laker.net>
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On Wed, 16 Sep 1998 13:47:17 +0200, CHARL wrote: >I have done a bit of more reading on my "missing kernel problem" and think >that the problem could be that my boot.config file does not install in the >root. > >Now how do I go about fixing this? Also my disk parameters are set as >follows: > >- /dos 502M (unfortunetly I have to have dos on drive aswell) >- / 96M I think it's because you've laid out your disk wrong. I believe the root partition has to fit within the first 1024 sectors, and your's doesn't. You have to shrink either or both of your dos partition and/or root to fit within 504M. This information appears in the copy of "The Complete FreeBSD" by Greg Lehey, but no where in the handbook... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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