Re: no /boot/loader - after installation
So I got a copy of boot-only 6.2 onto cd and went back into the bios and changed a few options: LBA mode: off Multi-sector transfers: auto Fast PIO: auto 32 bit transfer mode: on Ultra DMA: auto then ran the 6.2 install using dangerously dedicated which went fine and then on reboot now it comes up with Not ufs no /boot/loader so a slightly different message now, but still no go anyone? - jc On 20/07/07, John Clement [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The burner's been playing up recently so I've just been using the copy of 6.1 I've got. Maybe I'll get a copy of 6.2 burnt at work to try after the weekend. The locked MBR hadn't occured to me, but having checked, unfortunately it wasn't that. So back to the drawing board. If anyone's got any other idea, I'de love to hear them! cheers -jc On 19/07/07, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 03:31 AM 7/19/2007, John Clement wrote: I'm installing 6.1 on an HP Vectra VL420, I've been in the BIOS to set the C/H/S as per what the install reports (I've tried an 80GB Seagate and a 250GB WD), the install all seems to go fine. I've tried the FreeBSD boot manager, a standard MBR and even setting the disk as dedicated, but regardless I end up with the same 'no /boot/loader' when it reboots. I suspect (and hope) I'm making a simple mistake, I just haven't seen this happen before. Thanks in advance!! First you should try 6.2 which is the latest release. Check your BIOS that you are allowing to write to the boot area. Many BIOS have a setting to not allow this to prevent a virus writing to the boot area. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by *MailScanner* http://www.mailscanner.info/, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers http://www.transtec.co.uk/ for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: no /boot/loader - after installation
At 02:06 PM 7/23/2007, John Clement wrote: So I got a copy of boot-only 6.2 onto cd and went back into the bios and changed a few options: LBA mode: off Multi-sector transfers: auto Fast PIO: auto 32 bit transfer mode: on Ultra DMA: auto then ran the 6.2 install using dangerously dedicated which went fine and then on reboot now it comes up with Not ufs no /boot/loader so a slightly different message now, but still no go anyone? - jc I've never used the boot-only version. So let me ask if you saw any issues with sysinstall? Did you partition the disk and did newfs run without error? Before you exit sysinstall you can check and see what is on the disks from the emergency shell on vtty4. You can do a mount command and see what and where things are mounted and do an ls on those filesystems. -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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: no /boot/loader - after installation
At 03:31 AM 7/19/2007, John Clement wrote: I'm installing 6.1 on an HP Vectra VL420, I've been in the BIOS to set the C/H/S as per what the install reports (I've tried an 80GB Seagate and a 250GB WD), the install all seems to go fine. I've tried the FreeBSD boot manager, a standard MBR and even setting the disk as dedicated, but regardless I end up with the same 'no /boot/loader' when it reboots. I suspect (and hope) I'm making a simple mistake, I just haven't seen this happen before. Thanks in advance!! First you should try 6.2 which is the latest release. Check your BIOS that you are allowing to write to the boot area. Many BIOS have a setting to not allow this to prevent a virus writing to the boot area. -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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: no /boot/loader - after installation
The burner's been playing up recently so I've just been using the copy of 6.1 I've got. Maybe I'll get a copy of 6.2 burnt at work to try after the weekend. The locked MBR hadn't occured to me, but having checked, unfortunately it wasn't that. So back to the drawing board. If anyone's got any other idea, I'de love to hear them! cheers -jc On 19/07/07, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 03:31 AM 7/19/2007, John Clement wrote: I'm installing 6.1 on an HP Vectra VL420, I've been in the BIOS to set the C/H/S as per what the install reports (I've tried an 80GB Seagate and a 250GB WD), the install all seems to go fine. I've tried the FreeBSD boot manager, a standard MBR and even setting the disk as dedicated, but regardless I end up with the same 'no /boot/loader' when it reboots. I suspect (and hope) I'm making a simple mistake, I just haven't seen this happen before. Thanks in advance!! First you should try 6.2 which is the latest release. Check your BIOS that you are allowing to write to the boot area. Many BIOS have a setting to not allow this to prevent a virus writing to the boot area. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by *MailScanner* http://www.mailscanner.info/, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers http://www.transtec.co.uk/ for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
