Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 17:27:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian O'Shea <b_oshea@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot loader doesn't see ATA disk after successful install Message-ID: <20050511002738.18083.qmail@web50905.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: 6667
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Replying to my own question with another question after some more RTFM'ing... --- Brian O'Shea <b_oshea@yahoo.com> wrote: ... > ... When I created the slice on > disk1, sysinstall warned me that the geometry was incorrect. Instead > it used some other values that it considered to be more sane. I have > gone through the install twice, both with the same results. The > second time I looked up what the BIOS thought the geometry was, and > specified that to sysinstall. ... I just noticed this: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/troubleshoot.html#BOOT-READ-ERROR So I rebooted the system again and in the fdisk partition editor I re-entered the disk geometry values that I got from the system BIOS, and pressed 'W' as the above web page suggests. It then produced this warning: WARNING: This should only be used when modifying an EXISTING installation. If you are installing FreeBSD for the first time then you should simply type Q when you're finished here and your changes will be committed in one batch automatically at the end of these questions. If you're adding a disk, you should NOT write from this screen, you should do it from the label editor. Are you absolutely sure you want to do this now? I'm not quite sure what to do here. Technically this is an existing installation, but I've never been able to get it to boot from the disk because the loader can not find the filesystem installed on it. I'm not too concerned about the data on the disk because it can be easily re-installed. I'm just being cautious because of that warning. Is this what I need to do? TIA, -brian __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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