From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 11 13:37:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA11984 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 11 May 1997 13:37:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from iceberg.anchorage.net. (root@iceberg.anchorage.net [207.14.72.150]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA11978 for ; Sun, 11 May 1997 13:37:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from aak.anchorage.net (ai-132 [207.14.72.132]) by iceberg.anchorage.net. (8.6.11/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA31524; Sun, 11 May 1997 11:35:11 -0800 Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 12:27:44 -0800 (AKDT) From: Steve Howe X-Sender: abc@aak.anchorage.net To: jim ward cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I need help Badly. In-Reply-To: <3375EE95.400@idt.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 11 May 1997, jim ward wrote: > hey ... i'm an experienced computer user and i pretty much know what i'm > doing with unix (i have linux, os/2 and win95 booting using system > commander. i tried to install freebsd, and now my system can't recognise > my hard drive. if i try to reinstall any operating system, it can't > recognise my HD. if i try booting into dos, it wont work. i've tried > every single possible BIOS setting and even reinstalling freeBSD. i've > checked my connections on the inside of my computer and the hard drive is > there and connected. so what could cause this? > > anxious ... jim ward ... (thanks) what are the details? do you have a boot manager coming up? if not, put one in the MBR. then what happens? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sleep: a sign a caffeine deprivation ... http://www.anchorage.net/~un_x -------------------------------------------------------------------------