From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 18 7:22:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from Samizdat.uucom.com (samizdat.uucom.com [198.202.217.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B70637B400 for ; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 07:22:39 -0800 (PST) Received: (from cshenton@localhost) by Samizdat.uucom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA11218; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 10:22:37 -0500 (EST) To: Mark Yeck Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: [FIX] Re: 4.2R install on HP Vectra won't boot: no bootmgr, cursor han References: From: Chris Shenton Date: 18 Jan 2001 10:22:36 -0500 In-Reply-To: Mark Yeck's message of "Tue, 16 Jan 2001 21:19:30 -0500 (EST)" Message-ID: Lines: 18 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 16 Jan 2001 21:19:30 -0500 (EST), Mark Yeck said: Mark> Here's a clue I found on dejanews. Hopefully it will help. Mark> http://x69.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=700810190&CONTEXT=976477108.518324252&hitnum=2 Thanks! Seems a big hairy (grabbing boot0 images from FreeBSD-3.x, etc). As a last attempt before doing the above, I tried telling sysinstall to NOT use the normal FreeBSD boot manager, but to install the "Standard" boot manager, as it says "no boot manager". [Standard=none is a bit confusing, when the next choice is "don't touch the existing boot manager on disk"]. Anyway, the Vectra can now find the bootable FreeBSD disk, so I'm up and running. I'm not trying to use anything but FreeBSD so this is fine for me. Hopefully this note in the archives might help others. Thanks again. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message