From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 23 8:48:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bong.andmann.eu.org (world.peace.is [194.144.170.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3728837B422 for ; Wed, 23 May 2001 08:48:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andmann@bong.andmann.eu.org) Received: (from andmann@localhost) by bong.andmann.eu.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f4NFlEr05063; Wed, 23 May 2001 15:47:14 GMT Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 15:47:14 +0000 From: "David S. Geirsson" To: Beech Rintoul Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot problems Message-ID: <20010523154714.E1083@bong.andmann.eu.org> References: <20010523103842.C1083@bong.andmann.eu.org> <01052307442900.19645@galaxy.anchoragerescue.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <01052307442900.19645@galaxy.anchoragerescue.org>; from akbeech@anchoragerescue.org on Wed, May 23, 2001 at 07:44:29AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have installed twice, the first time with dangerously dedicated, the second time with a true partition. Neither worked. Anyway, I'm going to test this better when I get home, will reply again then if it doesn't work. On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 07:44:29AM -0800, Beech Rintoul wrote: > 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 > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Beech Rintoul - IT Manager - Instructor - akbeech@anchoragerescue.org > /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Anchorage Gospel Rescue Mission > \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | P.O. Box 230510 > X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99523-0510 > / \ ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Davíð Steinn Geirsson andmann@andmann.eu.org (354)-8696608 "Support staff hung over, Send aspirin and come back LATER." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message