Re: no boot/loader
- From: Derek Ragona <derek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:07:41 -0500
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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