From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 12 09:16:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA11357 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 09:16:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from luomat.peak.org (cc344191-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.83.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA11266 for ; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 09:16:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from luomat@luomat.peak.org) Received: by luomat.peak.org (8.9.0/0.0.0) id MAA17002; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 12:15:20 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199806121615.MAA17002@luomat.peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199806121551.KAA12954@horton.iaces.com> From: Timothy J Luoma Date: Fri, 12 Jun 98 12:15:17 -0400 To: "Paul T. Root" Subject: Re: Installing FBSD onto SCSI SyJet? cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <199806121551.KAA12954@horton.iaces.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Author: "Paul T. Root" Original-Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 10:51:14 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <199806121551.KAA12954@horton.iaces.com> > > My real concern is the problem where at the end of the installation one > > cannot get past the boot manager's F? prompt.... *that* would be yucky > > when doing an FTP install. > > Why would you need this? I installed it to use the entire disk (but remain > compatible with other OS's), you don't really need booteasy. Sorry I guess that wasn't as clear to people who aren't me... I installed FBSD once off a friend's CD-ROM. After we got done with the entire thing and rebooted, we got stuck at that point. The FAQ said: 2.17. I can't get past the boot manager's `F?' prompt. This is another symptom of the problem described in the preceding question. Your BIOS geometry and FreeBSD geometry settings do not agree! If your controller or BIOS supports cylinder translation (often marked as ``>1GB drive support''), try toggling its setting and reinstalling FreeBSD. "reinstalling FreeBSD" was the shocker.... we had to go through the whole thing again. I won't need to dualboot in any way/shape or form. I will pop in the SyJet, set the id=0 and boot FreeBSD. Once I am secure that the SyJet is dependable enough to do this, I may do it with several different OSes. TjL To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message