Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 19:14:47 GMT
From: "William O. Yates" <tinker@safemail.com>
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: FreeBSD-2.1 boot failure after install = ("F1 . . . BSD" looping)
Message-ID: <199604261914.TAA60916@garlic.com>
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REFERENCEING NOTE BELOW... I HAVE THE EXACT SAME PROBLEM.
(ie: F1 . . . BSD) (Keeps looping with same prompt...)
And I DID do the "A" (select all) option, and also answered "NO" for
compatibility (ie: no bootmanager).
When I boot off of the install diskette, and answer with "sd(0,a)/kernel",
FreeBSD-2.1 boots and runs just fine...
486 VLB motherboard (NO on-board ports/devices)
AMI BIOS (1995)
Intel 80486DX2-66
16MB DRAM (4 - 4Mx9-70ns)
256KB Secondary Cache
Adaptec 1542F SCSI / Floppy ISA Adapter (IRQ 11, ADD 330, DMA 5)
Toshiba 2X 3401B SCSI CDROM Drive
Seagate HAWK ST31200N 1.06GB SCSI Hard Disk Drive
Teac Dual 1.44MB-3.5"/1.2MB-5.25" Floppy Diskette Drive
2 x SCSI Disk Drive Drawer
3COM 3C509 Coax Ethernet ISA Adapter (IRQ 10, ADD 300)
SII Dual 16550 Serial Port ISA Adapter (IRQ 3,4)
SVGA ISA Adapter (256KB)($29 REALTEK/QUADTEL generic clone)
IBM 101 Keyboard clone
Serial Mouse
Seems that if there is some form of a Master-Boot-Record zap utility, this
would be easy to fix...
I do not NEED nor WANT any form of Boot-Manager, and I read the docs, and
thought this would not install any...
I installed EVERYTHING (over 600MB), so would really like NOT to have to
reinstall. If that is the only fix, well I guess I will, but just doing
another install without any answers about this could well be a waste of
time... (I already formated and installed again with same results...)
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Tony Magner stands accused of saying:
> F1 . . . BSD
>
> Default: F?
>
> Q: Did I do something wrong during install? What does this msg mean and
I how do I rid myself of it?
>
> Hardware: AST Bravo 433, AHA 1540CF, Seagate SCSI 1.2GB, NE2000 clone
You've almost certainly got the wrong geometry for the disk. If you're
installing 2.1.0, select the 'all disk' option, and then answer 'no'
to the 'compatability' question. You won't need the bootmanager, and
geometry stops being an issue.
> -- Tony Magner
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