From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 14 15:45:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA10875 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 15:45:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from eos.cstp.umkc.edu (eos.cstp.umkc.edu [134.193.2.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA10864 for ; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 15:45:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sramam@cstp.umkc.edu) Received: from localhost (sramam@localhost) by eos.cstp.umkc.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id RAA30246; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 17:44:52 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: eos.cstp.umkc.edu: sramam owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 17:44:52 -0500 (CDT) From: "Shishir K. Ramam" X-Sender: sramam@eos To: Arnie Millar cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installation of FreeBSD 2.2.7 In-Reply-To: <199810140233.VAA07358@mail.milwaukee.tec.wi.us> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, Arnie Millar wrote: > Thank you for this opportunity. I'm a FreeBSD 'newbie' so please bear with > me. I am installing FreeBSD on a 486SX machine with an IDE drive (903 > cyls, 8 heads, 46 S/T). After installing only the /bin distribution and > rebooting the system, I am getting the message: > F1...BSD > Default: F? > Can't find file boot.config > I read the help menu in the Boot Manager area, but I'm not sure this is > related to the BIOS geometry. The manufacturer had written documentation > explaining the hard drives attributes. Could I have done something wrong > during the installation process? > i am a "newbie" myself and had a similar problem a couple of days ago. only, my boot process seemed to stop with "F:?". what follows is the question and the answer. it seemed to work for me. i am still not sure i understand why exactly it works! ___________________________________________________________________________ > > the drive in question : WDC AC33100 (3 gig hard drive) > > the geomwtry : 6136 Cyl | 16 heads | 63 S/T | 512 T/S > > the problem : on installing FreeBSD, and rebooting, i come up > > with "F?" and things stall. I checked the > > geometry and set it right. but this keeps > > repeating. > > Take a DOS boot disk with FDISK on it. Boot off the disk. At the > A: prompt type 'fdisk /mbr' That should fix your problem. > Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message