Re: Can't get new install to boot?

[Mike Darweesh <jaromir@Radix.Net>]

Kjell Wooding writes:
> > I repartitioned:
> > a: 8G
> > swap: 256M
> > d <rest>
> 
> I would make "a" smaller, to ensure it fits below 8g (or whatever your
> bios may limit you to)
> / doesn't have to be very big, if you also have partitions for
> /usr, /var, /tmp, and /home
> (on the order of 50M)

OK, noted. I don't know my BIOS's official limit. But, it was working fine
wehn I had one 80G partition. Maybe I got lucky...

> 
> > But, when I boot from the 3.0 floppy and try a
> > 	boot hd0a:/bsd
> > 
> > I get
> > 	failed(22) will try /obsd.
> 
> try an "ls" there and see what you see...

ls of what? If boot the install floppy and mount the freshly installed disk,
I can see the full install there including /bsd.

> 
> > What else should I be doing to debug this install failure?
> 
> 
> dmesg, disklabel output, fdisk output

Yeah, I was thinking of posting those, but I can't figure out how to get those
from the machine to an e-mail message. Since I don't know how to get this
machine to boot and be on the net.

Thanks,
Mike