I have seen this happen where the kernel is not copied by sysinstall. I
booted the install CD but exited sysinstall to a shell prompt, mounted the
root partitiion and manually copied the kernel. You might give that a try.
-Derek
At 01:48 AM 8/23/2006, Perry Hutchison wrote:
> Recommend you get a [bigger|second] disk if you can though,
> or housecleaning will be a constant chore.
I got it more or less working, although not completely set up, and
then that 10GB disk died: click -- kerthunk -- click -- kerthunk
continuously, even after cycling power, even with only the power
connected :(
After replacing it with a 160GB Hitachi, and reinstalling Windoze,
Linux, and FreeBSD (in that order, as before), I seem to be back at
square one -- FreeBSD won't boot -- but the details are different.
Partition Commander now has:
Ptn size ----- type ----- 1st sector # of sectors
P0 250M FAT32 0x0B 63 514017
P1 7M Linux ext2 0x83 514080 16065
P2 41.99G Unix 0xA5 530145 88068330
P3 85.75G Extended 0x0F 88598475 179831610
L0 43.75G FAT32 0x0B 88598538 91763217
L1 400M Linux swap 0x82 180361818 819252
L2 41.60G Linux ext2 0x83 181181133 87248952
Sysinstall had not commented about the geometry with the 10GB disk,
but it did this time; and as suggested I let it do what it wanted.
The Dell BIOS will not tell me what it thinks the geometry is -- it
just says the drive is EIDE -- so I have no direct way of verifying
sysinstall's geometry; however the first BIOS partition is a
working FAT32 and per the instructions that "should" be enough for
sysinstall to have gotten it right. (The second BIOS partition is
a Linux /boot, which also works.)
The install appeared to succeed, and the FreeBSD boot manager does
successfully boot Windoze and Linux, but all attempts to boot FreeBSD
from the hard disk fail.
The following was transcribed by hand, so there might be some typos;
and I've added some notes to the right of the lsdev output. I've
also confirmed, using the loader's "ls", that there is no visible
file named 'kernel' in the root directory, nor anywhere under /boot,
/rescue, or /sbin. Where is it supposed to come from, and how do
I get it where it needs to be without reinstalling the whole thing
*yet again*?
====================================================================
F1 DOS
F2 Linux
F3 FreeBSD
Default: F3
BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01
Consoles: internal video/keyboard
BIOS drive A: is disk0
BIOS drive C: is disk1
BIOS 640kB/195584kB available memory
acpi: bad RSDP checksum (210)
FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1
([EMAIL PROTECTED], Sun May 7 03:20:03 UTC 2006)
Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf
Unable to load a kernel!
/
can't load 'kernel'
Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed help.
OK lsdev
cd devices:
disk devices:
disk0: BIOS drive A:
disk1: BIOS drive C:
disk1s1: FAT32 # C:
disk1s2: ext2fs # Linux /boot
disk1s3a: FFS # FreeBSD /
disk1s3b: swap
disk1s3d: FFS # FreeBSD /var
disk1s3e: FFS # FreeBSD /tmp
disk1s3f: FFS # FreeBSD /usr
disk1s4: Unknown fs: 0xf # contains FAT32 D:, Linux swap and /
pxe devicde:
OK
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