Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 14:49:58 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Yingjun He <hey@tuns.ca> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cannot boot Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980114144935.27200K-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19980114101103.00956240@newton.ccs.tuns.ca>
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On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Yingjun He wrote: > I just installed FreeBSD2.25 using ftp. After I installed the system > including X windows I cannot boot from drive C (which is the only > hard dis I have). It prompt me with the error message > " Drive not ready > Insert System Disk and reboot" > I don't understand if drive not ready how can I got everything copied > to the drive? Maybe the hard disk was not set to bootable? I never have > this kind of problem before. I tried several times and I got the same > error messages. Thank you for your help! 1. Insert a DOS boot floppy and boot it. 2. Run FDISK. 3. Set the active partition to one on your first disk. 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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