From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 20 19: 1:24 2002 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 EC82D37B401 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 19:01:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from andromeda.68k.org (callisto.teisoft.com [12.109.66.145]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7376443E42 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 19:01:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ayn@AndrewNg.com) Received: from localhost (ayn@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by andromeda.68k.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Debian-6Woody) with ESMTP id gAL31PIF017436 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Wed, 20 Nov 2002 22:01:26 -0500 Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 22:01:25 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Y Ng X-X-Sender: ayn@andromeda.68k.org To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot stuck at F1 after swapping drives In-Reply-To: <20021121025606.GA8009@gothmog.gr> Message-ID: Organization: ANDREWNG.COM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > Check what BIOS thinks about the drive. If you haven't set the disk > type to "AUTO" and used the disk detection tools of BIOS when you > swapped disks and used the Windows disk, you'll have to rerun the BIOS > disk detection tool after changing the disks again. it's set to AUTO. I was able to kindda boot to the harddrive with a CDROM, but I then tried to reboot and got stuck in the Default: F1 prompt again. =( > > This is weird. Maybe I didn't shut it down correctly this morning. > > Windows shouldn't really be able to affect FreeBSD, if they're not > running off the same disk :) I was thinking maybe I didn't shutdown my FreeBSD correctly, I did a reboot and just turned it off after the system restarted. I did that coz if i do shutdown the PC Card doesn't turn off when i hit the power switch. any idea? =( andrew y ng http://andrewng.com fingerprint : 46a1 29ff 893a 0381 dc81 1e1e bed8 e882 9bfc 594c To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message