Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 02:15:23 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: TomQ <zippy@tomquinn.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: first time install trouble Message-ID: <20000907021522.T18862@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <39B6E795.FB8919E3@tomquinn.com>; from zippy@tomquinn.com on Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 05:55:49PM -0700 References: <39B6E795.FB8919E3@tomquinn.com>
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* TomQ <zippy@tomquinn.com> [000906 17:55] wrote: > Good day. This is my first experience w/ BSD and I am having a little > trouble getting going. I am trying to install FreeBSD 4 on a Compaq > Proliant PL1600R. It is PII w/ 64M and a 9G SCSI. I am booted with the > CDRom and ran through all the instructions as well as followed the > written ones in "the Complete FreeBSD" by Lehay. Everything went well > until I try to reboot from the HD. I am getting this error: > > F1 > No /boot/loader > >>FreeBSD/i386.BOOT > Default:0:da(0,a)/Kernel > boot: > No /Kernel > > Any guidance would be appreciated. You didn't really say which options in the installer you followed. If you chose 'dangerously dedicated' disk partitioning then try without, I've known some people that have gotten things working by not choosing that option. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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