Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 20:30:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Milscvaer <millueradfa@yahoo.com> To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <garys@opusnet.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Failed installation of FreeBSD 5.4 Message-ID: <20050815033021.55766.qmail@web54509.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <z48xz4z16v.xz4@mail.opusnet.com>
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--- "Gary W. Swearingen" <garys@opusnet.com> wrote: > Milscvaer <millueradfa@yahoo.com> writes: > > > I am sorry, I should explain the situation a more > > clearly. > > And I'm sorry that I don't have much more to say. > First, I apologise for being so upset. I was rather frustrated by this. > I think that BTX stuff is part of "boot2". I know > this is a > fairly common problem (which I've had too), but I > don't know > what to do about it beyond "doing something > different". :( > > Normally you would want to use at the boot: prompt: > 0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader > instead of > 0:ad(0,a)/boot/kernel/kernel > This is the critical information I needed to know! I tried /boot/loader and I am now able to boot into FreeBSD 5.4 off the floppy! After booting, Everything seems to be fine and as it should be. This is great, I can just leave the floppy in the drive, and boot from that. There must be something wrong with the boot records that fdisk is not correcting. I know friends who have had unuseable boot records as well and have to boot from floppies, Its not really a big inconvenience. To be honest, FreeBSD is the only OS that seems to run on this system, I tried OpenBSD and NetBSD and both cannot even boot into the installer. FreeBSD is still a good OS. Thank you for all of your help, I really appreciate it. > I'd normally guess that the disk geometry has gotten > confused somehow, > but if you're able to see the 5.4 files with the > fixit disk, geometry > is probably OK. > > The fixit floppy usually doesn't have the command > one needs to do what > one wants to do, but I should support replacing the > HDD MBR with > fdisk, using a DOS-style MBR that you have to set > the active > partition. Then that should boot to 5.4's boot1 > sector which should > start boot2, which should start /boot/loader or give > a prompt. > If the fixit floppy has bsdlabel (and has a > /boot/boot1, etc), you > could try replacing the boot1 & boot2 records, but > don't wipe out > the disk's bsdlabel. > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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