From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sun Jul 12 04:21:44 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5BB4997ACD for ; Sun, 12 Jul 2015 04:21:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from reg@dwf.com) Received: from deneb.dwf.com (70-90-202-97-Albuquerque.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [70.90.202.97]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A4993930 for ; Sun, 12 Jul 2015 04:21:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from reg@dwf.com) Received: from deneb.dwf.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by deneb.dwf.com (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id t6C427Dg001385; Sat, 11 Jul 2015 22:02:07 -0600 Message-Id: <201507120402.t6C427Dg001385@deneb.dwf.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.3 To: FreeBSD questions , reg@dwf.com Subject: FreeBSD install. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2015 22:02:07 -0600 From: reg@dwf.com X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 04:21:44 -0000 OK, Im confused, or not impressed, choose one. I have been trying for several months to put PCBSD 10.1 and FreeBSD 10.1 on one disk. I finally gave up, and am installing FreeBSD over the top of my previous PCBSD. sigh. After several attempts to put FreeBSD in a partition on the disk I gave up, and let it have the full 500GB disk. Mumph. The install seems to go well, I give it an IP address, hostname, etc, and get down to the point where you reboot. I say yes to the reboot, and instead of rebooting from disk, I get the bios messages (Im using a mbr) that say its trying to boot from the ethernet. I went back and did this a 2nd time, just to be sure, but got the same result. What gives? I dont remember having this sort of problem when I ran FreeBSD 20 years ago? And why isnt the installer smart enough to install to a partition, every other OS in existence can do that. -- Reg.Clemens reg@dwf.com