Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 07:44:29 -0800 From: Beech Rintoul <akbeech@anchoragerescue.org> To: "David S. Geirsson" <andmann@andmann.eu.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot problems Message-ID: <01052307442900.19645@galaxy.anchoragerescue.org> In-Reply-To: <20010523103842.C1083@bong.andmann.eu.org> References: <20010523103842.C1083@bong.andmann.eu.org>
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On Wednesday 23 May 2001 02:38, David S. Geirsson wrote:
> I have an old HP Vectra p75 machine here. For some reason, it refuses to
> boot after I install FreeBSD on it. The win95 installation that was on it
> when I got it booted fine. The FreeBSD install booted fine from the
> bootdisk, and it installed without a hitch. After the BIOS, nothing
> happens. Just the blinking cursor on the screen.
>
>
> Any ideas? I'm completely stomped.
Did you make the drive "Dangerously Dedicated"? I have the same machine and
it won't boot unless it sees a dos partition. So you can't use that option.
If that doesn't work go back to fdisk and reinstall the boot loader.
Beech
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