can't open /boot/loader
Rich O.
ttor at tznet.com
Thu Apr 7 06:31:33 PDT 2005
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On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Rich O. wrote:
>
> My problem now is that when I try to boot from the SCSI disk where
> it was installed I get the error "can't open file /boot/loader". In my
> researching I only found a suggestion that the / slice had to be the first
> one on the SCSI disk and it doesn't work having something else being the
> first slice (like swap). This isn't the case though because / is the first
> slice...
>
I found the fix to this myself actually... While playing around
with the fixit option (which I stupidly didn't know actually worked on one
of the CDs without having a floppy image) I found that I could mount
/dev/da0a (the / slice) just fine and /boot/loader was there. Everything
looked fine from what I could tell.
I ended up running `bsdlabel -B /dev/da0` from the fixit prompt
and then attempting to reboot using the harddrive.
This actually worked and now I have FreeBSD-5.3 up and running for
the first time ever on my Miata/PWS 433au
I figured I would post my findings for anyone else that may have
this issue.
Thanks.
~Rich O.
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