From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 1 11: 4:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A718837B400 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 11:04:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id VAA07778; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 21:09:19 +0100 Message-ID: <3A27F666.6060809@i-clue.de> Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 20:05:10 +0100 From: Christoph Sold User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; m18) Gecko/20001130 X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ana Romero Cc: freeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problems after installing References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ana Romero wrote: > Probably, you have seen this question but it can be answered and everyb= ody > tells me to ask here. >=20 > Hello! >=20 > After installing FreeBSD 4.0., I try to boot from > the hard disk, but the boot manager prompt prints: > Loading FreeBSD > L? >=20 > at the boot menu. What can I do? >=20 > I have Lilo boot manager installed. After printing "Loading FreeBSD L?"= , > the system is dead, I mean, keyboard doesn=B4t work and the system is n= ot > 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=20 running FreeBSD prefer either BootEasy ot OS-BS. Both are available at=20 your local FreeBSD mirror in the tools directory. Since I use both of them, I cannot tell you have to tweak Lilo (short=20 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 message