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Date:      Tue, 27 Aug 2002 09:06:39 +0300
From:      "Jurgis" <jurgis@delfi.lv>
To:        "Giorgos Keramidas" <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Booting problem: No /boot/loader
Message-ID:  <001d01c24d8f$e87b1e00$252fa8c0@jurgis>
References:  <000f01c24ccd$385de740$252fa8c0@jurgis> <20020826182647.GE756@hades.hell.gr>

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Thank you, it helped!

Jurgis

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Giorgos Keramidas" <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: "Jurgis" <jurgis@delfi.lv>
Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>
Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 9:26 PM
Subject: Re: Booting problem: No /boot/loader


> On 2002-08-26 09:53 +0000, Jurgis wrote:
> > I have and old IBM PS/ValuePoint with 486DX33 16MB RAM and
> > 1.7GB HDD.
> >
> > I installed FreeBSD 4.5 but it displays:
> > No /boot/loader
> > when booting and continues to boot kernel.  Because of that I cannot
> > use "top" and my network card does not work.
> >
> > As I understand problem is connected with 528MB limit in BIOS.
> > /boot/boot2 cannot find /boot/loader and therefore /boot/kernel.conf
> > is not executed (network card is configured there).
> >
> > I configured the disk like this:
> > <swap> - 64M
> > / - the rest of the disk
> 
> It's probably a good idea to have more than one partitions there.
> Can you try making partitions like this?
> 
> Size(MB) Mount-point
> 200 /
> 1700-200-64 /usr
> 64 swap
> 
> This way you'll have some space in / for /tmp, /var and basic stuff
> needed to boot, and do basic work and still avoid hitting the 512MB
> limit.  The sizes are not by any means "optimal" for your use of the
> machine (since I don't know what it's supposed to do), but you get the
> basic idea.
> 
> -- 
> FreeBSD: The Power to Serve <> http://www.FreeBSD.org
> FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #0: Wed Aug 21 22:08:19 EEST 2002


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