Very newbie mistake, which I finally figured out. That will teach me to read the vendors instructions more carefully than the OS documentation. Basically the problem was that I followed the instructions of the software that I will be installing on this server for the partitioning scheme. They recommended a seperate partition for "boot" and this evidently does not work for freebsd, which makes sense since it probably isn't mounted at boot time. As I was looking through the bsd install guides, I noticed this was never done so I gave that a try and voila!, everything works as expected.
Thanks Craig Russell --- Derek Ragona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 09:21 AM 4/12/2007, Craig Russell wrote: > >I am a newbie using freebsd and have run into a > >problem on a new install on a dell poweredge 6650. > I > >am installing to a hardeware raid 1 on an LSI Logic > >raid controller. The installation appears to go > well > >but after a reboot the freebsd boot manager comes > up > >with F1 to boot Freebsd (or default) and then it > >complains of no boot loader followed by a "no > >/boot/kernel/kernel" error. > > > >The default boot parameter is > >0:ad(0,d)/boot/kernel/kernel > > > >I've tried different slices with the same results. > I > >have tried using the MBR instead of the freebsd > boot > >manager. I have tried different bios settings on > the > >raid card (LSI logic in the poweredge 6650). I'm > not > >really sure what to try next. I've even tried to > >install it on a different machine on a single sata > >drive with the same result. I am obviously doing > >something wrong but I can't for the life of me > figure > >out what it is. > > > >Thank you for any help or direction you can > provide. > > If you have tried on two systems, one with a > standard IDE/SATA drive and > that failed to boot as well, I would suspect the > install media is bad. I > would download a new ISO and burn a new cd. You > might try an ISO from a > different mirror. It is possible your CD is foobar. > Be sure you get the > correct disk 1 ISO from whatever mirror you use. > > -Derek > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their > support. > > _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"