Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 09:40:14 -0500 (EST) From: Marwan Fayed <s0121430@cs.laurentian.ca> To: Dexter X <dexterx@montana.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Question Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10001200936220.3781-100000@eten-04.cs.laurentian.ca> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20000120015855.009c90a8@mail.montana.com>
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I have had a problem that is somewhat similar. My machine (laptop) is supposed to be dedicated to freebsd. I did try with a dual boot and found a problem similar to yours. What you might find is the following. Reboot with the installation disks and continue as if you were installing for the first time. When you get to the first menu (blue screen) just go to the label editor. My bet is that you will find that the partitions still exist, but the labels are gone for some reason. That is, instead of appearing as "/" or "/usr", they appear as "<none>". That may give you some insight as to what is causing the problem, but unfortunately I do not know how to solve it. If you figure it out PLEASE let me know as I would like to have freebsd on my thinkpad. good luck (to you, and me!) marwan On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Dexter X 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 :) > > Dex > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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