no boot/loader

[Derek Ragona]

At 07:11 PM 8/8/2008, acmeinc wrote:

>Excellent!  I will try this among the other things mentioned when I get back
>home.
>
>Final note, what would this BIOS MBR setting look like normally, or an idea
>of where to look in the CMOS.
>
>THanks

A lot of BIOS's have a setting for boot virus prevention, or it will just 
be to enable or disable the boot area being written.  Most BIOS's have just 
a few pages of settings, so look through them all.

         -Derek




>Derek Ragona wrote:
> >
> > At 07:00 PM 8/8/2008, acmeinc wrote:
> >
> >>Check things?  Which things should I be checking for?   And where should I
>be
> >>checking them, to be more specific, which optoin should I choose within
> >>sysinstall to check the things?
> >>
> >>I am reading on another forum the installation is incorrect and to try
> >>again, however I have tried many times.  Do you think the minimun install
>is
> >>not enough to allow for bootup?
> >
> > Before you exit sysinstall, go to the emergency shell I believe alt+F4
> > will
> > get you there.  Then do:
> > mount
> >
> > The output from mount will show where the new filesystems are mounted.
> > You
> > can check that /boot is populated and that you have a kernel in
> > /boot/kernel/kernel.  To check those you'd type:
> >
> > ls -al [fill in the root mount point]/boot
> >
> > and
> >
> > ls -al [fill in the root mount point]/boot/kernel/kernel
> >
> > Check your BIOS settings.  It is likely you have a setting in the BIOS
> > preventing the boot area being written.
> >
> >          -Derek
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>Derek Ragona wrote:
> >> >
> >> > At 04:42 PM 8/8/2008, acmeinc wrote:
> >> >
> >> >>No /boot/loader
> >> >>no /boot/kernel/kernel
> >> >>
> >> >>I isntalled FreeBSD 7.0 with the defaults for partiioning. I am using
> >> one
> >> >>hard drive in which I followed with the ASQ (auto, tag for boot, quit)
> >> >>command. I choose the standard boot loader option. I installed through
> >> the
> >> >>master freebsd site via ethernet. Upon the congratulation screen is
> >> asks
> >>for
> >> >>a reboot, and to remove the boot disk, I resart to the error message
> >>above.
> >> >>I believe it is because a boot loader is not installed, however, it
> >> should
> >> >>be. Is it not in the set up, it is one of the first steps.
> >> >>
> >> >>Following the errors I am in put into a boot prompt:
> >> >>
> >> >>boot:
> >> >>
> >> >>Are there any commands I can run from this prompt to manually boot? How
> >>can
> >> >>I make the boot work? Will I need to install my own boot loader? How
> >> can I
> >> >>install a manul boot loader? How can I check if the boot loader is
> >> >>installed, but just not loading properly?
> >> >
> >> > You would do well do try the install again, but check things BEFORE you
> >> > allow sysinstall to exit and reboot.  Also check that your BIOS has any
> >> > anti-virus settings not allowing the boot area of the hard disk to be
> >> > written, turned off.
> >> >
> >> >          -Derek
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