From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 11 13:02:42 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21FC016A41F for ; Sun, 11 Jun 2006 13:02:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from betty.computinginnovations.com (dsl081-142-072.chi1.dsl.speakeasy.net [64.81.142.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B74D43D46 for ; Sun, 11 Jun 2006 13:02:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from p17.computinginnovations.com (dhcp-10-20-30-100.computinginnovations.com [10.20.30.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by betty.computinginnovations.com (8.13.6/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k5BD2CNd050108; Sun, 11 Jun 2006 08:02:15 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20060611080034.026dd310@mail.computinginnovations.com> X-Sender: derek@mail.computinginnovations.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 08:02:00 -0500 To: "Sean M." , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Derek Ragona In-Reply-To: <20060611063821.80716.qmail@web52307.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20060611063821.80716.qmail@web52307.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-From: derek@computinginnovations.com X-Spam-Status: No Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: FreeBSD Boot Problem on Multiple HDDs X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 13:02:42 -0000 You may need to do an upgrade reinstall. It sounds like the boot block is foobar. If you reinstall the same version using the upgrade option, that should take care of the problem. -Derek At 01:38 AM 6/11/2006, Sean M. wrote: >I just did my first ever bit of hardware hacking--salvaging a 6GB HDD >from a useless computer and installing it as a slave--and went and put >FreeBSD on it and a 3151MB partition on the master drive, which already >had Windows 2000 Professional SP1. Here is how I chopped up the disks: > >ad0s1: FAT32 W2K (I have since converted to NTFS) >ad0s2: /, swap, /tmp, /etc, and /var >ad1s1: /usr > >The problem is that I can't start FreeBSD. When I get to the boot >loader, I see: > >F1 DOS >F2 FreeBSD >F5 Disk 1 > >Pressing starts the typical hardware listing, then I see: > >Manual root filesystem specification >... >mountroot> > >And the crux of the problem is that I can't type anything because the >keyboard is frozen! What can I do here? > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >http://mail.yahoo.com >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >-- >This message has been scanned for viruses and >dangerous content by MailScanner, and is >believed to be clean. >MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support.