Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 13:24:42 -0400 From: "Andresen,Jason R." <jandrese@mitre.org> To: Paul Jansen <vlaero@yahoo.com.au> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: editing boot loader? Message-ID: <39AD435A.6FEA5B35@mitre.org> References: <20000830170221.15439.qmail@web5103.mail.yahoo.com>
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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
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