From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 11 22:23:22 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7FC516A420 for ; Sat, 11 Feb 2006 22:23:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from betty.computinginnovations.com (dsl081-142-072.chi1.dsl.speakeasy.net [64.81.142.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AC8043D45 for ; Sat, 11 Feb 2006 22:23:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from p17.computinginnovations.com (dhcp-10-20-30-100.computinginnovations.com [10.20.30.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by betty.computinginnovations.com (8.13.5/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k1BMN2Nf049099; Sat, 11 Feb 2006 16:23:02 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20060211162155.02617100@mail.computinginnovations.com> X-Sender: derek@mail.computinginnovations.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 16:22:55 -0600 To: "Devin Miller" , From: Derek Ragona In-Reply-To: <002a01c62f49$c406dce0$0601a8c0@tscolumbus.com> References: <002a01c62f49$c406dce0$0601a8c0@tscolumbus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: derek@computinginnovations.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: Additional Hard Drive Prblems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 22:23:23 -0000 It sounds like your computer is trying to boot from the sata drive. Check the boot order in your BIOS and make sure it is set to boot the ide drive first. Hope this helps. -Derek At 02:28 PM 2/11/2006, Devin Miller wrote: >Hello Everyone, > >Thanks in advanced for helping me. > >I am doing a new install of FreeBSD 6.0 RELEASE > >My computer is a Dell PowerEdge 400sc > >I have 2 hard drives installed in the computer: 1 80GB IDE hard drive and 1 >200 GB SATA hard drive > >I can install FreeBSD on the IDE drive (detected as ad0) fine and have no >problems. The issue arises after the install when I try to fdisk and Label >the SATA drive (detected as ad4). I want to use the SATA drive as a depot >of sorts to hold all my media. > >I use sysinstall after the installation to slice and label the drive. After >I do this and reboot FreeBSD will not boot properly. I usually get just a >blinking cursor where the boot loader should be or an invalid partition >error. I have tried installing with a boot loader, without a boot loader, I >have verified I am slicing and labeling the correct disk. I'm kind of at my >wits end. I have reloaded about 10 times trying various ideas. Any ideas >on what I could be doing wrong? Thanks for any help given. > >Devin Miller > > > > > > > _____ > >avast! Antivirus : Outbound message clean. > > >Virus Database (VPS): 0606-4, 02/10/2006 >Tested on: 2/11/2006 3:28:47 PM >avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2005 ALWIL Software. > > > > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"