Re: Loader not found

[Bill Hacker <wbh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:

> :Hi,
> :
> :The dfly-2005.0131.iso dose not boot.
> :I got the following error:
> :Building the boot loader arguments
> :Looking up /BOOT/LOADER... File not found
> :
> :I downloaded DF iso from the following website:
> :http://www.bsdinstaller.org/iso-images/
> :
> :I know this iso has the bsd new installer integrated with, thats why I 
> :would like to try out.
> :
> :Is there any suggestion and comment for this?
> :
> :Thanks
> :Sam
>
>     There are still issues with the boot loader.

Probably not...

  Sigh.  I haven't been
>     able to figure out why some machines can't find /boot/loader.  It's got
>     to be some sort of disk addressing issue but none of my boxes have this
>     behavior so I can't track down exactly what or why.

I have seen it with other *BSD's and other OS' - OS/2 notoriously so.
Controller/BIOS or cylinder issue, sometimes just driver sequencing.
Often not the same for initial installation as it is later..

Will explore those with Sam offline and get back...

Bill

> 					-Matt
> 					Matthew Dillon 
> 					<dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>