From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 20 1:11:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0DD314C87 for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 01:11:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id BAA23842; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 01:35:11 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 01:35:11 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Dexter X Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Question Message-ID: <20000120013510.G20751@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <3.0.6.32.20000120015855.009c90a8@mail.montana.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20000120015855.009c90a8@mail.montana.com>; from dexterx@montana.com on Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 01:58:55AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Dexter X [000120 01:26] wrote: > This is probably a stupid question..but..here it goes...I installed > FreeBSD 3.4 on a 2.5 gig partition on my HD. I made sure to make the > partition a FreeBSD partition and all that good stuff...it installed fine, > i didn't go through and install a bunch of the extra stuff yet, just wanted > to get the basic system on my computer tonight....everything looked like it > was goin great..dialed the internet fine during the install...then i got a > couple errors something about fork somethin...i dont remember..it was > during configuring tcl if i remember right...anyway so I decided to reboot > and then just hit the sack..when i rebooted, it loaded up the bootmanager > program, F1 for DOS, F2 for FreeBSD F1 was the default, so I hit > F2 to boot up FreeBSD...and all it did was Beep..no matter what i hit all > it did was Beep..so i had to boot up in windows and cant seem to get > FreeBSD to boot :( If you have any ideas what i did wrong or how i can fix > this please let me know..the errors i had while configuring tcl are no big > deal, i'll deal with that later....not being able to boot up FreeBSD isn't > too cool though..and i've tried reinstalling it a couple times > also...well..thanks for your time :) does this apply/help: http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/multi-os/x136.html ? -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message