From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 11 00:27:39 2005 Return-Path: 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 DD97916A4CE for ; Wed, 11 May 2005 00:27:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web50905.mail.yahoo.com (web50905.mail.yahoo.com [206.190.38.125]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6D1CA43D55 for ; Wed, 11 May 2005 00:27:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from b_oshea@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 18085 invoked by uid 60001); 11 May 2005 00:27:38 -0000 Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; b=ISABjeYhD7V94sIz7pX5ssTn9HN475RiLv55ATvX3FRHV46ZVmCLG/Ue7DLFk/NlpvwpLl+Kez/dRQhHle5YGKROitZUj57R4C2sUFSehDvDGjo/xjbtiY3LuSE5gROMIToXE40aSGRiMOYpgiyuisYJQSmJ4fdSF86h+fQSZqI= ; Message-ID: <20050511002738.18083.qmail@web50905.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [156.153.254.41] by web50905.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 10 May 2005 17:27:38 PDT Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 17:27:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian O'Shea To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: 6667 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: Boot loader doesn't see ATA disk after successful install X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 00:27:40 -0000 Replying to my own question with another question after some more RTFM'ing... --- Brian O'Shea 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