From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 3 04:55:25 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 8689B37B405 for ; Thu, 3 Jul 2003 04:55:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lv.raad.tartu.ee (lv.raad.tartu.ee [194.126.106.110]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 819CC44005 for ; Thu, 3 Jul 2003 04:55:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee) Received: Message by Barricade lv.raad.tartu.ee with ESMTP id h63BtFI27901; Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:55:15 +0300 Message-Id: <200307031155.h63BtFI27901@lv.raad.tartu.ee> Received: from INFO/SpoolDir by raad.tartu.ee (Mercury 1.48); 3 Jul 03 14:55:15 +0300 Received: from SpoolDir by INFO (Mercury 1.48); 3 Jul 03 14:55:11 +0300 From: "Toomas Aas" Organization: Tartu City Government To: Rob Lahaye , questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:55:09 +0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Priority: normal In-reply-to: <3F03A22D.7000908@users.sourceforge.net> References: <44y8zhc9j5.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> 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 11:55:25 -0000 > From: Rob Lahaye > >>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 Snip... > 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 I suspect you need to set ad0s1 slice bootable (using S key in fdisk screen). Flags should be CA, not simply C. -- Toomas Aas | toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * @dress: A garment worn by some people when emailing at home.