From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 7 11:33:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA29457 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 7 Jul 1997 11:33:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from intertrader.com ([195.89.144.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA29448 for ; Mon, 7 Jul 1997 11:33:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from butterfly.intertrader.com(really [195.89.144.135]) by intertrader.com via smail with smtp id for ; Mon, 7 Jul 1997 20:41:09 +0100 (BST) (Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #1 built 1997-Mar-5) Message-Id: <3.0.2.32.19970707193357.006db178@mail> X-Sender: rachel@mail X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.2 (32) Date: Mon, 07 Jul 1997 19:33:57 +0100 To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: Rachel Willmer Subject: RE: trouble getting machine to boot In-Reply-To: References: <3.0.2.32.19970707143438.006f0430@mail> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Well, I've just done a complete reinstallation using the "novice" option rather than the "expert" and it's all working fine now. It looks as though I was missing out one of the steps to make the partition active and bootable, even though I thought I had done this OK. Thanks to all who chipped in with suggestions Rachel -- Rachel Willmer Intertrader Ltd 4 John's Place Tel: +44 131 475 7108 Edinburgh EH6 7EL Fax: +44 131 475 7109 Authors of "Digital Money Online" (TM)