From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 27 13:04:59 2005 Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> 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 65DAD16A41F for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Sat, 27 Aug 2005 13:04:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rsh.lists@comcast.net) Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net (rwcrmhc12.comcast.net [216.148.227.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A4D243D46 for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Sat, 27 Aug 2005 13:04:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rsh.lists@comcast.net) Received: from [192.168.1.11] (tardiss.hsd1.ma.comcast.net[66.30.82.93]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc12) with ESMTP id <2005082713045801400kjldbe>; Sat, 27 Aug 2005 13:04:58 +0000 Message-ID: <431064F5.2020508@comcast.net> Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 09:04:53 -0400 From: Sean <rsh.lists@comcast.net> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050817) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: boot problem (stage 2 boot?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: rsh.lists@comcast.net List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions> List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 13:04:59 -0000 Just installed on a new system and I am unable to boot. Currently when that system boots it comes up with what looks like the following example from the handbook >> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default: 0:ad(0,a)/kernel boot: from my reading this is a boot2 stage booting from cd and going into Fixit it fdisk shows partition 1, 2, and 3 unused, and Freebsd is on partition 4. I thought it should be on partition 1? Note: on install I choose the Standard boot manager. I have tried playing with fdisk and disklabel to try to cure this problem, but continually get the example shown above. With none of the above efforts working I have tried changing the boot manager and no luck, both by reinstalling and just by using sysinstall to modify the boot manager.I did get F1 FreeBSD when trying the FreeBSD boot manager option, but it still did not start the system. Thanks Sean