Date: 21 Nov 2003 08:57:12 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Jake Stride <jake.stride@senokian.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation Issues Message-ID: <44isldj03r.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <3C0A6C0E-1AA6-11D8-B98C-000A956E520C@senokian.com> References: <3C0A6C0E-1AA6-11D8-B98C-000A956E520C@senokian.com>
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Jake Stride <jake.stride@senokian.com> writes: > I have had freebsd 4.9 working fine on a dell optiplex, until I > decided to do a re-install today. However, I am now no longer able to > boot freebsd. > > The installation proceeds normally, but when I reboot the system, it > gets to the boot manager and then reboots, and then keeps on rebooting > everytime it gets to the boot manager. > > I have tried without the boot manager and also each of the > partitions. I have also set the / partition to bootable, but to no > avail. > > I am sure this must be a simple error on my part, but I have been > looking at it for too long now, and wondered if anyone else could shed > any light on the issue. Sounds like you didn't get the loader installed on your FreeBSD boot partition.
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