From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 19 14:51:37 2002 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 3568737B400 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 14:51:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nebula.anchoragerescue.org (115-7-237-24-cable.anchorageak.net [24.237.7.115]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 722C943E65 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 14:51:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from akbeech@sinbad.net) Received: from there (galaxy.anchoragerescue.org [24.237.7.95]) by nebula.anchoragerescue.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6B592384; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 13:51:33 -0800 (AKDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Beech Rintoul Reply-To: akbeech@sinbad.net Organization: Sinbad Network Communications Inc. To: Linux Pquter , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bootloader at install time Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 13:51:32 -0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <20020819214524.1923.qmail@web14904.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20020819214524.1923.qmail@web14904.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020819215133.6B592384@nebula.anchoragerescue.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday 19 August 2002 01:45 pm, Linux Pquter wrote: > Hello list, > > I installed version 4.6 about three times in a row, > missing how to get the bootloader to work. When I > reboot after install, I get a F1 and F5 prompt, with > nothing happening. > > I chose the first option, to install the bsd boot > loader, and I allocated the entire drive to bsd, with > automation partitioning. I haven't a clue what I keep > doing wrong. > > Help please, > -wet behind my BSD ears. > Choose the standard (no boot loader) option if your whole disc is partitioned for FreeBSD. Also you might want to increase the size of / and /var, I found the auto setting partitioned these too small to be practical. The handbook is your friend on a first time install. Beech -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - SysAdmin - akbeech@sinbad.net /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Sinbad Network Communications \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 3101 Penland Parkway #K-38 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99508-1957 / \ ----------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message