Subject: Re: Error No Operating System
To: John R. Shannon <john@johnrshannon.com>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/01/2006 16:50:39
On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 05:33:51AM -0700, John R. Shannon wrote:
> >Rerun installboot(8)
> >
> > David
> >
>
> Now I get:
>
> Boot failed (errno 2): Can't open /boot.
Ok so that fixed the first problem...
> If I mount /dev/wd0a on /mnt I can see /mnt/boot. Copying a fresh copy
> of /usr/mdec/boot over to /mnt/boot does not change anything.
>
> Any idea what may be wrong and how to fix it ?
I suspect you've created a non-standard layout....
The code tries quite hard to locate /boot, but you are allowed to shoot
yourself in the foot :-)
Can you send the layout part of the output of 'fdisk wd0' and 'disklabel wd0' ?
David
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