From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 13 17:50:12 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C7A016A474 for ; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 17:50:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from webmaster@hawaiidakine.com) Received: from mail.alohahosting.net (oahu.alohahosting.net [64.75.245.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDF4543D45 for ; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 17:50:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from webmaster@hawaiidakine.com) Received: from [192.168.1.35] by alohahosting.net (MDaemon.PRO.v8.0.2.R) with ESMTP id md50000241533.msg for ; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 08:00:34 -1000 Message-ID: <448EFA9E.5060308@hawaiidakine.com> Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 07:49:18 -1000 From: Al Plant User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050108) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, info@hawaiidakine.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authenticated-Sender: hdkmail@hawaiidakine.com X-Spam-Processed: mail.alohahosting.net, Tue, 13 Jun 2006 08:00:34 -1000 (not processed: message from valid local sender) X-MDRemoteIP: 66.180.149.18 X-Return-Path: webmaster@hawaiidakine.com X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-MDAV-Processed: mail.alohahosting.net, Tue, 13 Jun 2006 08:00:35 -1000 Cc: Subject: FreeBSD 6.1 boot loader missing X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: webmaster@hawaiidakine.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 17:50:12 -0000 I installed FreeBSD 6.1 on 2 different HD's 3.5 GB. When the reboot is supposed to happen the Boot loader doesnot come up. Is there a way to fix this from a single user prompt or any other way? I have never had this happen to FreeBSD and I have been installing it on many boxes since version 3.4. This box is for a firewall on a small office lan with only a minimal FreeBSD 6.1 installed to run the firewall. It is an HP box Vectra 486/66. I have looked at several how to's in my FreeBSD reference books, but most say put a dos partition on the drive as maybe the bios need to see the parameters more clearly. Any Ideas besides that? I do have a box that cant run above FreeBSD 4.11 as a print server in an installation. But FreeBSD 5* would not install on it at all. This installs but won't boot. Al Plant -- Webmaster- http://hawaiidakine.com Admin- http://freebsdinfo.org -- Supporting Open Source Computing - - FreeBSD 6.* -- Debian Linux 3* "All that's really worth doing is what we do for others."- Lewis Carroll