New install won't boot
Dan Phiffer
dan at phiffer.org
Mon Jan 10 21:04:05 PST 2005
Hello,
I just installed a new 5.3 system that doesn't seem to want to boot.
Here is the process I followed:
1. Install onto two disks ad0 and ad1 (20GB and 80GB, respectively)
2. Slice each to maximum size using 165 (FreeBSD) type
3. Partition with /, swap, /var, /tmp, /usr on ad0 and /home on /ad1
each given ample space
4. Install minimal system from mini-CD
5. Configure network, configure as a gateway, enable SSH
6. Add user account, set root password
7. Reboot
At this point I'm given a series of error messages as the machine looks
for a system to boot to:
Invalid partition
No /boot/loader
FreeBSD/i386 boot
Default: 0:ad(0,a)/kernel
boot:
Invalid partition
No /kernel
FreeBSD/i386 boot
Default: 0:ad(0,a)/kernel
boot:
And it just kind of hangs at that point. The motherboard is an IWILL
and I've set it up to boot in this order:
CD-ROM
HDD1
HDD2
Is there anything I can try to debug this? It seems pretty mysterious.
Thanks for any help,
-Dan
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