From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 15 03:30:24 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B14216A41F for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 03:30:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from millueradfa@yahoo.com) Received: from web54509.mail.yahoo.com (web54509.mail.yahoo.com [206.190.49.159]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9AD1F43D45 for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 03:30:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from millueradfa@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 55768 invoked by uid 60001); 15 Aug 2005 03:30:21 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=VUo0KNxeT5So0jk87EP47QSH1xR8l9CUath9DGa/uueVJpUw5JU8V6vOMBoaY6LpzOllmQl6fLPJACgq2gmqFoCmFT5V4z/612ZHuz9QorBt/4Nv+d0i/k3graovUdZXFst/2aQGnQZrPgEwmy/qdNf9W5FEmkwUJkrpP8amhIc= ; Message-ID: <20050815033021.55766.qmail@web54509.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [60.36.181.86] by web54509.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 20:30:21 PDT Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 20:30:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Milscvaer To: "Gary W. Swearingen" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Subject: Re: Failed installation of FreeBSD 5.4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 03:30:24 -0000 --- "Gary W. Swearingen" wrote: > Milscvaer 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