From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 29 03:01:45 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 381A516A4CE for ; Sat, 29 Jan 2005 03:01:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: from Shenton.org (23.ebbed1.client.atlantech.net [209.190.235.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5BE8C43D39 for ; Sat, 29 Jan 2005 03:01:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chris@Shenton.Org) Received: (qmail 81699 invoked by uid 1001); 29 Jan 2005 03:01:32 -0000 From: Chris Shenton To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org References: <86acqt6j65.fsf@PECTOPAH.shenton.org> Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 22:01:32 -0500 In-Reply-To: <86acqt6j65.fsf@PECTOPAH.shenton.org> (Chris Shenton's message of "Fri, 28 Jan 2005 21:52:34 -0500") Message-ID: <86k6px7xbn.fsf@PECTOPAH.shenton.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: Boot fails: Default F1? hangs. Trashed MBR? replaced FBSD mbr. X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 03:01:45 -0000 Chris Shenton writes: > So I booted from floppies, went to Wizard mode, did the Install > FreeBSD Bootmanager. Rebooted. Now it halts at the prompt "Default: > F1" and beeps when I hit any key, like RETURN, F1, etc. Forgot to mention... When I was installing the FreeBSD MBR from floppy, I don't recall the sysinstall program showing me any partitions, at all. Perhaps I've wiped out the info on disk that says where they are and what size. Again, I'm getting way outside my understanding of FreeBSD's boot process, but figured this might be rather significant. I'm getting a bad feeling about this. Thanks again.