From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 9 21:49:37 2005 Return-Path: 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 0803C16A4CE for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 21:49:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: from top.daemonsecurity.com (FW-182-254.go.retevision.es [62.174.254.182]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6542343D48 for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 21:49:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from norgaard@locolomo.org) Received: from [IPv6???1] (localhost.daemonsecurity.com [127.0.0.1]) by top.daemonsecurity.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC654FD01F; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 22:49:34 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <420A8568.2090407@locolomo.org> Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 22:49:28 +0100 From: Erik Norgaard User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050127 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us, da, it, es MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fafa Diliha Romanova References: <20050209213114.A542C1CE317@ws1-6.us4.outblaze.com> In-Reply-To: <20050209213114.A542C1CE317@ws1-6.us4.outblaze.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what a fucking serious problem: really, it *doesn't* boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 21:49:37 -0000 Fafa Diliha Romanova wrote: > really, what's wrong? > > i've installed freebsd 5.3 on my entire harddrive. > but with the standard or freebsd's mbr, it doesn't make any difference: > > i don't know what to do. i can't see what's wrong, since it won't tell > me anything. as i said, all it does is to reboot. in an infinite loop. There is a boot-only cd that you can use for rescue purposes, (I'm not sure if the install cd will work also. The install cd will give you sysinstall so you can repeat any steps that might have failed.) You should be able to get a shell and use the most basic commands, a good one is dmesg - yeah, I know it's a bit difficult to grap the output and paste it in your next post :-(. Things to try: can you mount your partitions? can you find /sbin/init or /stand/sysinstall? Things to post: output of dmesg, your drive partitions, other stuff that you think is usefull. Cheers, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: http://www.locolomo.org S/MIME Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/2004071206.crt Subject ID: A9:76:7A:ED:06:95:2B:8D:48:97:CE:F2:3F:42:C8:F2:22:DE:4C:B9 Fingerprint: 4A:E8:63:38:46:F6:9A:5D:B4:DC:29:41:3F:62:D3:0A:73:25:67:C2