From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 8 18: 6: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from heorot.1nova.com (sub24-23.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.24.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8146C37B423 for ; Fri, 8 Sep 2000 18:06:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 697533282; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 17:29:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 567E03281; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 17:29:45 +0000 (GMT) Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 17:29:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Rick Hamell To: SoftGuitar@aol.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Not able to boot (was: Re: dos floppies) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > No one wil answer my repeated questions so I can not even use my FreeBSD. 90% of the time the reason your question has not been answered it because it's not very clear. There is not enough information to provide good troubleshooting. > When I had my BSD installed by a local guy here in Minneapolis he > installed it so quickly and left without even directions on how to install. Yep, FreeBSD installs very quickly... http://www.freebsd.org/handbook is where you find info on how to install it. Though the first time I installed, just after 2.2.6 came out, I didn't read any instructions at all. :) > I was able to access root and do teh usual Unix commands etc but then I > tried to get back on a few days later and now it tells me ."no disk > found"...please verify that your disk controller is being properly probed at > boot time.......see hardware guide on document menu for clues on diagnosing > this type of problem..." Ok, do you have IDE, SCSI? What kind of drives? Do you know what kind of controller you've got? Have you checked all the hardware connections? Everything nice and tightly plugged in? Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message