From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 17 09:54:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA27773 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 09:54:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from ha1.rdc1.nj.home.com (siteadm@ha1.rdc1.nj.home.com [24.3.128.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA27767 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 09:54:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from luomat@luomat.peak.org) Received: from luomat.peak.org ([24.2.83.40]) by ha1.rdc1.nj.home.com (Netscape Mail Server v2.02) with ESMTP id AAA171; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 09:54:11 -0800 Received: (from luomat@localhost) by luomat.peak.org (8.8.5/8.8.7) id MAA22586; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 12:54:12 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199711171754.MAA22586@luomat.peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 4.1mach v148) X-Image-URL: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/luomat@peak.org.tiff In-Reply-To: <346F1579.3380E576@parallel.park.uga.edu> X-Nextstep-Mailer: Mail 4.1mach (Enhance 2.0b6.5) Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.148.RR) From: Timothy J Luoma Date: Mon, 17 Nov 97 12:54:10 -0500 To: Ted Major Subject: Re: Help w/ boot manager's F? prompt cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <346F1579.3380E576@parallel.park.uga.edu> X-Image-URL-Disclaimer: hey, it's off my student ID, gimme a break ;-) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Author: Ted Major Original-Date: Sun, 16 Nov 1997 10:47:05 -0500 Message-ID: <346F1579.3380E576@parallel.park.uga.edu> > I read the FAQ entry, and I've reinstalled it setting the geometry, > but I still can't get it to boot. What else do I need to try? There is a program called 'pfdisk.exe' which is supposed to help with this, but I wouldn't get it to work (not sure how I am supposed to use it, but anyway....) What I finally did was made a 10 meg DOS partition, and then FBSD saw the disk geometry just fine. TjL