Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 13:49:52 +0100 From: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie> To: "Byron L. Sonne" <blsonne@rogers.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: trying to fix missing /boot/loader error, no luck Message-ID: <200205141349.aa56124@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 13 May 2002 22:06:50 EDT." <3CE0713A.15124DE2@rogers.com>
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In message <3CE0713A.15124DE2@rogers.com>, "Byron L. Sonne" writes: >So I tried a few things, notably "disklabel -B ad0" and "boot0cfg -Bv >ad0". I rebooted after each and I still get the "no /boot/loader" and >"meta data missing" errors. If I do a dir of /boot, I can see loader and >a bunch of other things. I then tried using sysinstall to replace the >MBR and then tried "boot0cfg -Bv ad0" but still no luck. Try "disklabel -B ad0s1" (assuming slice 1 is your FreeBSD slice). Also, do you have a very large root partition (> 8GB) or does your root partition end more than 8GB from the start of the disk? If so, the contents of /boot/loader might not be accessible using the BIOS. The normal recommendation is for a small (128-256MB) root filesystem to avoid such problems. Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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