Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 16:53:51 -0400 From: "Jason Litz" <jlitz@mindspring.com> To: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: boot problem after new installation Message-ID: <000001c100dd$9cd4d1d0$0100a8c0@jasonlitz>
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Hi, I'm new to BSD and I am afraid my ignorance is my number one problem. However, my BSD problem goes like this. I just installed for the first time FreeBSD ver 3.4 on a brand new machine sharing Win2000. My machine has the following - MSI K7T Turbo-r Motherboard with AMD 1.2GHZ chip and 512m ram Seagate Barracuda ATA III 40G hard drive set up LBA with the BIOS saying it has 4865cyl - 255h - 63s Pioneer 16x DVD drive Video card out of a one yr old Gateway machine - don't know the make and model, find out if necessary floppy I already had to Windows partitions defined. I installed according to the installation instructions in "The Complete FreeBSD by Greg Lehey" 3rd edition. The install seemed to go fine. The only error I encountered was - "Unable to transfer the PC98 - Servers/x9TGU distribution from Acd0c" I did select to have the Boot manager installed. On the first reboot after install the boot manager appeared as - F1: ?? F2: ?? F3: FreeBSD Default F3 This is where it hangs. I can reboot and press F1 to go into Windows but no matter if I leave the default at F3 or press F3 it never boots BSD and the hard drive light does not come on. I have verified that the hd geometry, during install, is the same as in the bios. I tried to boot from a floppy and specify boot: hd()kernel as specified in the above book on page 101 but I never see the boot: prompt and I've hit keys in several places during the boot off floppy but nothing. It just carries me on into the install procedures. I have not been successful looking in the online doc or the web site. This is surely due to my ignorance of BSD. I would highly appreciate any help and would be glad to supply any other info I can that may help. Thanks, Jason Litz jlitz@mindspring.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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