Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 09:19:37 -0500 From: Oscar Ricardo Silva <oscars@mail.utexas.edu> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Installation of FreeBSD 4.4 fails on 20GB drive Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20011024091219.024423c8@mail.utexas.edu>
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I have a machine with an AMD Athlon 1.2GHz processor, 256MB of RAM, two ATA100 hard drives (20GB, 40GB) on the first IDE controller and a CD drive on the second. These controllers are ATA66 and ATA100 compatible and so the drives are detected at ATA100. I'm attempting to install FreeBSD 4.4 but the install fails. I actually get through the entire install, I see that files are being copied to the slices I've created but on reboot I get: Invalid Partition 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 drives are set to AUTO in the BIOS and they're detected as being in LBA mode. I have no problem during install, I can see both drives, partition them, label them (/, /var, /usr, etc). I've seen something like this before and I even tried creating a small 50MB partition at the beginning of the boot disk, creating "/boot" on this partition and then creating the other slices on the rest of the disk but still the same error. Any ideas/suggestions would be extremely appreciated. Oscar To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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