no boot/loader

[Derek Ragona]

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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