From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 2 20:25:27 2003 Return-Path: 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 0FD4F37B401 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 2003 20:25:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spam2.snu.ac.kr (spam2.snu.ac.kr [147.46.10.68]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D59A143FB1 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 2003 20:25:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lahaye@users.sourceforge.net) Received: (snipe 11164 invoked by alias); 3 Jul 2003 03:34:30 -0000 Received: from lahaye@users.sourceforge.net with Spamsniper2.0 (Processed in 0.015675 secs); Received: from unknown (HELO sis1.snu.ac.kr) (147.46.10.36) by 0 with SMTP; 3 Jul 2003 03:34:30 -0000 X-RCPTTO: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org,freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com, Received: from users.sourceforge.net ([147.46.44.183]) by sis1.snu.ac.kr (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h633Mwmx060914; Thu, 3 Jul 2003 12:22:58 +0900 Message-ID: <3F03A22D.7000908@users.sourceforge.net> Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 12:25:33 +0900 From: Rob Lahaye Organization: Seoul National University - South Korea User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030702 X-Accept-Language: en-us, ko-kr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lowell Gilbert , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <3F010F7A.4070809@users.sourceforge.net> <44y8zhc9j5.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <44y8zhc9j5.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: boot hangs after install 4.8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 03:25:27 -0000 Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Rob Lahaye writes: > >>I have just installed FreeBSD 4.8 on a PC. Only FreeBSD, no other OS. >>The installation goes all well; I exit at the end and the PC boots. >>Immediately after the BIOS stuff, I get the first FreeBSD prompt: >> >> >> F1 FreeBSD >> >> Default: F1 >> >> >>What ever key I hit next, only produces a beep from the PC. >>Nothing happens, so it seems to hang at this point. >> > > Sounds like you've got a single slice. The bootloader isn't managing > to find the FreeBSD boot blocks. You may have failed to install them > for some reason, or maybe you've put the root partition too far in to > the disk for the BIOS to boot it. Before installing FreeBSD, this PC was successfully running Mandrake Linux 9.0, but this Linux distro is gone now. The BIOS settings are untouched (but how relevant are the BIOS settings to the no-boot-from-harddisk after FreeBSD installation?). The floppies kern.flp / mfsroot.flp boot like a charm, and this is how my FreeBSD installation proceeds: sysinstall Main Menu: Standard Begin a standard installation (recommended) FDISK Partition Editor (with "A = Use Entire Disk"): DISK Geometry: 21858 cyls/34 heads/54 sectors = 40131288 sectors (19595MB) Offset Size(ST) End Name PType Desc Subtype Flags 0 54 53 - 6 unused 0 54 40131234 40131287 ad0s1 3 freebsd 165 C Install Boot Manager for drive ad0: BootMgr Install the FreeBSD Boot Manager FreeBSD Disklabel Editor (with "A = Auto Defaults"): Disk: ad0 Partition name: ad0s1 Free: 0 blocks (0MB) Part Mount Size Newfs ---- ----- ---- ----- ad0s1a / 128MB UFS Y ad0s1b swap 368MB SWAP ad0s1e /var 256MB UFS+S Y ad0s1f /tmp 256MB UFS+S Y ad0s1g /usr 18586MB UFS+S Y Choose Distributions: User Average user - binaries and doc only ("No" to ports collection install) Choose Installation Media: FTP Install from an FTP server (-> ftp.kr.freebsd.org) Network interface information required: rl0 RealTek 8129/8139 PCI ethernet card [Network card configured properly & installation proceeds via ftp] Message: Congratulations! You now have FreeBSD installed on your system. ...bla..bla..bla... [The only relevant things I do hereafter, is set the root password and reboot] sysinstall Main Menu: X Exit Install ... Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `vnlru' to stop...stopped Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `bufdaemon' to stop...stopped Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `syncer' to stop...stopped syncing disks... done Uptime: 32m27s Rebooting... And that's it. It will never boot from harddisk. All I get from FreeBSD is: F1 FreeBSD Default: F1 and merely a beep, everytime I hit a key on the keyboard. Any idea why that happens? What should I change in the installation procedure above? Or are BIOS settings responsible for this? Thanks, Rob.