From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 27 17:27:25 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AAAE16A422 for ; Mon, 27 Mar 2006 17:27:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yraffah@savola.com) Received: from Johansberg.savoladns.com (johansberg.savoladns.com [212.12.174.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F1CE843D45 for ; Mon, 27 Mar 2006 17:27:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from yraffah@savola.com) Received: (qmail 26673 invoked by uid 210); 27 Mar 2006 20:21:56 +0300 Received: from 222.22.1.211 by Johansberg (envelope-from , uid 201) with qmail-scanner-1.25st (clamdscan: 0.87.1/1357. perlscan: 1.25st. Clear:RC:1(222.22.1.211):. Processed in 0.021887 secs); 27 Mar 2006 17:21:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ocs.savola.com) (222.22.1.211) by johansberg.savoladns.com with SMTP; 27 Mar 2006 20:21:56 +0300 Received: from ocs.savola.com by ocs.savola.com with ESMTP id 50661321143477563; Mon, 27 Mar 2006 19:39:23 +0300 Message-ID: <4931244.1143477563764.JavaMail.oracle@ocs.savola.com> Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 19:39:23 +0300 (AST) From: Yousef Raffah To: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Webmail Client(UIX) Subject: Re: Can't boot with a new install X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 17:27:25 -0000 --- Original Message --- > Hi everyone, > > I just finished installing FreeBSD 6 RELEASE on my Toshiba > Tecra A4 > laptop and the installation was fine, however, when I rebooted > the > machine, I don't get the boot loader screen as if the machine > can not > see my drive! I tried the reinstalling and ensured that I set > the slice > to be bootable but that didn't change anything. > > Not sure if this is a common issue with FreeBSD 6 on Toshiba > laptops but > I'm still looking around > I'm sorry if this is not the right Mailing list to post but I hope someone can point me or at least give some hints to look for as I'm almost clueless. I see no reason why it can't boot of my drive after installing FreeBSD, although this is not my first BSD install, but is there anything specific that must be set during the install (I doubt)? I have erased all the slices on the drive then pressed on "A" to create the FreeBSD slice Automatically (it created three slices and one of them is ad0s1 and I have no clue what are the other two for), then I Auto labeled the slices from the installer and continued the installation. :( -- Sincerely, Yousef Raffah