From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Nov 22 19:23:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA17008 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Sun, 22 Nov 1998 19:23:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from s3000-01.magna.com.au (s3000-01.magna.com.au [203.4.212.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA17002 for ; Sun, 22 Nov 1998 19:23:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rgreen@rainbow.net.au) Received: from pc005 (saccess-08-164.magna.com.au [203.111.73.164]) by s3000-01.magna.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1/Magna Data/1.2) with SMTP id OAA00751 for ; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 14:23:13 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <01ae01be1690$ccfeb9a0$0500a8c0@pc005> From: "Richard Green" To: X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3115.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Subject: NEWBIE: Boot problems Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 14:24:35 +1100 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I've installed FreeBSD on the following config: Pentiun AMI mb, IDE controllers turned off in BIOS & noe IDE devices connected One Adaptec 1540CF for CD-ROM and DDS drive (ISA) (BIOS off in firmware) One Adaptec 2940UWn for the single disk Wide SCSI disk drive Upon booting the 1540 is detected 1st. When I installed I selected the auto options for both the disk slice editor and the partitiong sheme. On different install attempts I select to use (a) the boot manager (default) and (b) no boot manager (boot directly). Upon the 1st reboot I find that in the caseof (a) I get the message F1 FreeBSD F1 Default and upon preesing F1 I amreturned the prompt F? Upon case (b) above, I simeply get the message 'operating system missing' I tried booting from floppy to and took what I thought was the likely SCSI disck to manually select to boot from at the 'boot: prompt, which I think is 0:sd(0,a), which then says can't find the drive and returns to the boot prompt (then the boot prompt and messages start to loop every few seconds unless something is typed at the boot: prompt - is this normal?) If I try 1:sd(0,a) 0x81 C:0 H:0 S:0) etc. I have tried various other combinations, and using the ? option to seeif I can get a list of files at least, to no avail. Questions: 1. What is my boot device? How could I work this out? 2. How can I correct my system having booted (its using the direct boot method currently) so I can boot from the hard disk? Thanks & regards Richard Green To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message