From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 30 10:24:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtpproxy1.mitre.org (mb-20-100.mitre.org [129.83.20.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BC3037B42C for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 10:24:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from avsrv1.mitre.org (avsrv1.mitre.org [129.83.20.58]) by smtpproxy1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA18500 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 13:24:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailsrv2.mitre.org (mailsrv2.mitre.org [129.83.221.17]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA26528 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 13:22:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mitre.org ([128.29.145.140]) by mailsrv2.mitre.org (Netscape Messaging Server 4.1) with ESMTP id G048D500.7Q8; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 13:24:41 -0400 Message-ID: <39AD435A.6FEA5B35@mitre.org> Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 13:24:42 -0400 From: "Andresen,Jason R." Organization: The MITRE Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en]C-20000509M (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Jansen Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: editing boot loader? References: <20000830170221.15439.qmail@web5103.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Paul Jansen wrote: > > My boot loader no longer allows my to boot FreeBSD. I > don't know how to fix this. > When I press 'F3' for FreeBSD it just beeps at me. > I've been able to verify that my FreeBSD partition is > alive and well. > > I am looking for a little more informatino on the > FreeBSD boot process. I would very much like to be > able to add a line to my NT emergency boot floppy that > enables me to boot FreeBSD also but have so far been > unsuccessful. Are you trying to install FreeBSD 4.0 beyond about 8.5GB on the drive? If so you might want to consider upgrading to 4.1 or 4-STABLE, which has the fix for this problem. -- _ _ _ ___ ____ ___ ______________________________________ / \/ \ | ||_ _|| _ \|___| | Jason Andresen -- jandrese@mitre.org / /\/\ \ | | | | | |/ /|_|_ | Views expressed may not reflect those /_/ \_\|_| |_| |_|\_\|___| | of the Mitre Corporation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message