Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 09:15:50 -0400 From: Akin Johnston <abajay@twcny.rr.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Newbie Boot problems Message-ID: <WTVGBVUMIXVWVPLTO2ROMGB6DA2YWV.3cb98106@anumonwo>
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Display all headers From: Akin Johnston <abajay@twcny.rr.com> Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 09:11:08 -0400 Subject: Newbie boot problems Can anybody please help? I.ve been trying to install FreeBSD 4.5 with no success. I tried downloading and via FTP. Both times the install went OK, but I stilll could't boot after the install. I keep getting the error: >> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default: 0:ad(0,a)/kernel boot: Not ufs No /kernel >> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default: 0:ad(0,a)/kernel boot: Not ufs No /boot/loader I have a gateway 2000 Pentium 75 with an old BIOS 1 1440 Floppy drive 1 ATAPI CD drive ethernet NE2000 compatible network card (irq10.1/0 320) 1 parrarel port 2 serial ports (1 disabled both in BIOS and sysinstall to prevent conflists with ethernet card) an IDE IBM 16G hard drive as master an IDE Conner 120M hard drive as slave 40M RAM Ontrack Disk Manager 9.55 installed. (I ned the Disk Manager for Windows to see all of ther drive) Windows 95 installed. After trying many partioning schemes with no success, then losing all data after a partioning snafu, I have ended up with the following scheme: Hard drive 1: 7M partion for DOS (c: in DOS) 400M partition for FreeBSD (ad0s2 in FreeBSD) 150M root parttion / (ad0s2a in FreeBSD) 65M swap partition <swap> 90M var partition /var ad0s (ad0s2b) 100M temp parttion /tmp (ad0s2e) 2047M parttion for FreeBSD usr parttion /usr 10000M Extended partion 2047 Windows (d: in DOS) 2047 More data (e:in DOS) 2047 unused 2047 unused saved for Linux 2047 unused: saved for OS/2 The rest is thus far unallocated Hard Drive 2: 120M thus far unallocated The install goes OK fine. I have been able to see the contents by using the install diskettes: kern.flp and mfsroot.flp and the fixit.flp loader is definitely in /boot/loader. BIOS settings: 2055cylinders/255heads/63sectors this is the same as what FreeBSD reports and disk manager reports. FreeBSD install settings: ATAPI hard drive controllers enabled parralel port enabled 1 serial port enabled NE 2000 card enabled Boot manager installed Is there anything else I should be doing? I have tried in vain to search for an answer to this dilemna but to no avail. Windows runs fine, so does(did) slackware linux. Should I be using a different boot manager?(I am considering BootIT NG). I really don't want to reinstall all other OSes until I am sure FreeBSD won't force me to screw up the pattion table again. Any ideas? Thanks! Abajay To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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