From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Dec 11 11:55:20 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 11 11:55:17 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from cube.gelatinous.com (unknown [207.82.194.150]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8D66737B400 for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 11:55:17 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 74378 invoked by uid 1005); 11 Dec 2000 19:52:28 -0000 Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 11:52:28 -0800 From: Dan Holliman To: Cliff Sarginson Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting 4.2 Message-ID: <20001211115228.A74082@gelatinous.com> References: <00121008151802.01488@buffy> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <00121008151802.01488@buffy>; from cliff@raggedclown.net on Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 08:15:18AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 08:15:18AM +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > Hello, > I have installed 4.2 from CD. > Try as I might I could not install it as bootable. > I tried various permutations of installation. > I dedicated the whole hard disk of the PC I was trying > it on to BSD. > But I got zip when I booted. > So I installed a minimal linux installation, > then BSD and using Lilo, lo and behold it booted ! I am no help but I had the exact same problem. I spent hours agonizing over boot blocks and experimenting with grub to try to get freebsd 4.2 to boot from the disk drive of a PC (I blamed my weird HP Vectra BIOS at the time), then I installed Linux just so I could use LILO, and I was able to boot into freebsd finally. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message