Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 14:38:31 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Terry Eck <eck@sc10.dseg.ti.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org, eck@sc10.dseg.ti.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD Install but will not boot! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960402143558.1389A-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <9604021822.AA06653@sc10.dseg.ti.com>
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On Tue, 2 Apr 1996, Terry Eck wrote: > I've installed FreeBSD v2.1 via the Walnut Creek cdrom. The target disk > was the 2nd hard drive. I selected the entire disk for install. I choose > not to install any boot manager since I use OS/2's bootmanager to boot > DOS, OS/2, Linux and hopefully BSD. Ok. I have a similar install here and this works great. > After install the machine rebooted and locked up with a 2 line message > on the screen in very large letters. Next I booted OS/2 from floppy and > reinstalled the bootmanager (somehow the BSD install defined the boot > partition as non-startable). That happened to me too; I think you have to watch out on the fdisk portion of sysinstall and make sure it doesn't change the active flag. > Rebooting I selected the partition with FreeBSD and got the Boot: prompt. > Since I need to specify the port address I entered -c<CR> and the computer > started with a single | character instead of the series |/-\|/-\ and the > computer halted. I had to do a hard reboot. Something here is screaming "geometry", but I'm not sure what :) Did you key in the proper geometry in fdisk? You might try making a small DOS partition on that disk, then install FreeBSD, deleting that partition and then using the whole disk. > I've tried to provide parameters for the boot sector when booting from the > floppy but I'm not sure about hard drive notation. I think I used various > combinations of wd1a/kernel at the boot prompt. The proper notation for this disk is wd(1,a)/kernel Take a look at the geometry on the disk and make sure FreeBSD agrees with you. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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