From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 28 00:12:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA01887 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 28 Jan 1996 00:12:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA01875 for ; Sun, 28 Jan 1996 00:12:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from uahis1.uah.edu (uahis1.uah.edu [146.229.1.2]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with SMTP id AAA06293 for ; Sun, 28 Jan 1996 00:12:47 -0800 Received: from ebs330 by uahis1.uah.edu with SMTP ; Sun, 28 Jan 96 03:09:50 CST Received: by ebs330 (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA01936; Sun, 28 Jan 96 02:11:32 CST Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 02:11:31 -0600 (CST) From: Luis Verissimo Subject: Re: computer won't boot from hard drive after install of freeBSD 2.1 To: Christopher Wilkins Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9601280633.AA05752@pulm1.accessone.com> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I had a similiar problem with one of my machines. From searching the freebsd-questions mailing list archives I found that FreeBSD was not recognizing the exact geometry of my hard disk. I took the cheap way out and dedicated the entire disk to FreeBSD using the A option of FreeBSD 2.1. Luis \\|// O-O ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~oOO~~~~~(_)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~ LUIS VERISSIMO ~ ~ Univ. Alabama Huntsville ~ ~ e-mail: Engineering Bldg. Rm 216-a (205) 895-6509 ~ ~ licau@ebs330.eb.uah.edu Huntsville, AL 35899 (205) 895-6928 ~ ~ ~ ~ web: http://eb-p5.eb.uah.edu/student/licau/index.html (205) 830-2323 ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~oOO~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | | | -- -- ooO Ooo VISIT MY HOME PAGE On Sat, 27 Jan 1996, Christopher Wilkins wrote: > I just completed what seemed like a successful novice install of freeBSD 2.1 > release from CD-ROM except for one small problem. > > I have a P5-90 with 24 MB of RAM and windows 95. I have three hard drives: a > Quantum 540 MB is the C drive, and two WD 1.2 GB drives, D and E. I have > made a 512 MB dos partition on E and am using the rest of E as my space for > freeBSD. > When I re-start the computer now, the computer finds the keyboard and hard > drives just fine, but then will not proceed with loading the OS unless it is > from floppy. If there is no floppy, it just sits there with the floppy drive > light on. Perhaps the boot manager did not get loaded properly? Any ideas, > suggestions, solutions? I am at a loss. Any help is greatly appreciated. > > Chris > zing@pacificws.com > >