Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 17:19:15 -0300 From: Andrew Hankinson <andrew.hankinson@acadiau.ca> To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: boot problems Message-ID: <E607FA67F85FD311A7D400A024B226E101AD9609@exch.acadiau.ca>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Hi all, I'm a first time poster, and also new to FreeBSD. I just installed FreeBSD 4.3 on my IBM Thinkpad, 500 Celeron w/ 128 MB RAM, 6 GB HD. The FreeBSD partition is approx 1 GB, and I have a 5 GB W2K partition. Anyway, the install went fine, but when I rebooted, it would get past the BIOS, and then the screen would flicker, and it would reboot again. Having a FreeBSD boot floppy will not boot it (it seems to ignore the disk, even though I'm pretty sure it checks the floppy drive first when booting.) Has anyone run in to anything similar, and is there a workaround? For some reason it will not even let me into change my BIOS settings. Am I royally screwed? Thanks. Andrew Hankinson [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 5.5.2653.12"> <TITLE>boot problems</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hi all,</FONT> </P> <P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I'm a first time poster, and also new to FreeBSD. I just installed FreeBSD 4.3 on my IBM Thinkpad, 500 Celeron w/ 128 MB RAM, 6 GB HD. The FreeBSD partition is approx 1 GB, and I have a 5 GB W2K partition. Anyway, the install went fine, but when I rebooted, it would get past the BIOS, and then the screen would flicker, and it would reboot again. Having a FreeBSD boot floppy will not boot it (it seems to ignore the disk, even though I'm pretty sure it checks the floppy drive first when booting.) Has anyone run in to anything similar, and is there a workaround? For some reason it will not even let me into change my BIOS settings. Am I royally screwed? Thanks.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Andrew Hankinson</FONT> </P> </BODY> </HTML>
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