From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 13 1:23: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from uni-sb.de (uni-sb.de [134.96.252.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A58014DA1 for ; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 01:22:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from schuerge@wurzelausix.CS.Uni-SB.DE) Received: from wurzelausix.cs.uni-sb.de (wurzelausix.cs.uni-sb.de [134.96.247.1]) by uni-sb.de (8.9.3/1999031900) with ESMTP id KAA01116 for ; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 10:20:23 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from schuerge@localhost) by wurzelausix.cs.uni-sb.de (8.9.1/wjp/19980821) id KAA21994 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 10:13:47 +0200 (CEST) From: Thomas Schuerger Message-Id: <199904130813.KAA21994@wurzelausix.cs.uni-sb.de> Subject: FreeBSD won't boot To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 10:13:46 +0200 (CEST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi! I have Win95 and FreeBSD 4.0-Current on my system. Today I had to reinstall Win95, which overwrites the master boot record. After that I used fdisk to switch to FreeBSD and used /stand/sysinstall to install the FreeBSD selector boot record (I set the FreeBSD and the Win95 partition to bootable first). Now the boot selector will be displayed, but I cannot run FreeBSD from it anymore. It will just show the boot prompt in the boot loader and won't accept to boot from my SCSI drive, where the FreeBSD and Win95 partition are located (using "0:da(0,a)kernel", which should work). The boot loader just says "Invalid format!". Then I used the Fixit-Floppy and tried to boot FreeBSD from my harddrive, again using "0:da(0,a)kernel", which works perfectly. Am I missing something? Why doesn't the harddrive-installed bootloader accept my kernel, whereas the floppy bootloader does? Thanks for your help! Ciao, Thomas. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message