Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 20:05:10 +0100 From: Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de> To: Ana Romero <anar@ees2.oulu.fi> Cc: freeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problems after installing Message-ID: <3A27F666.6060809@i-clue.de> References: <Pine.GSO.4.30.0012011010410.26482-100000@stekt49>
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Ana Romero wrote: > Probably, you have seen this question but it can be answered and everybody > tells me to ask here. > > Hello! > > After installing FreeBSD 4.0., I try to boot from > the hard disk, but the boot manager prompt prints: > Loading FreeBSD > L? > > at the boot menu. What can I do? > > I have Lilo boot manager installed. After printing "Loading FreeBSD L?", > the system is dead, I mean, keyboard doesn´t work and the system is not > loaded. > I have thought that it can be the geometry of the hard disk, but I have > changed putting the same as in BIOS and also no works. Although it should be possible to have Lilo boot FreeBSD, most people running FreeBSD prefer either BootEasy ot OS-BS. Both are available at your local FreeBSD mirror in the tools directory. Since I use both of them, I cannot tell you have to tweak Lilo (short for Linux Loader ;) ) into behaving with FBSD. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the messagehelp
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