problems with sysinstall

Sergey Matveychuk sem at ciam.ru
Wed Oct 29 09:27:48 PST 2003


Doug White wrote:
> "Missing operating system" comes out of the DOS default bootblock, not the
> BIOS.

Yes, I know. But I don't feel better then.

> Don't use chainloader with FreeBSD.  Use 'kernel /boot/loader' instead.
> This is documented in the GRUB info doc. Again, I have set this exact
> system up with redhat on the first disk and it works perfectly.

Grub do not supporting UFS2. So only way to boot -current is chainloader.

> This is normal and for your protection. you can't edit the disk you're
> running off of.  If you are running off of ad1, make sure 1) you're root
> when you run sysinstall and b) you aren't mounting any filesystems from
> ad0.

Well, I understand it for slices. But why I can't create new partition 
in exist slice and newfs it? It was OK in -stable.

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