From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 29 14: 2:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from granger.mail.mindspring.net (granger.mail.mindspring.net [207.69.200.148]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7538A37B401 for ; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 14:02:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jlitz@mindspring.com) Received: from jasonlitz (user-2inifeu.dialup.mindspring.com [165.121.61.222]) by granger.mail.mindspring.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA03578 for ; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 17:02:37 -0400 (EDT) From: "Jason Litz" To: Subject: boot problem after new installation Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 16:53:51 -0400 Message-ID: <000001c100dd$9cd4d1d0$0100a8c0@jasonlitz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Disposition-Notification-To: "Jason Litz" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I'm new to BSD and I am afraid my ignorance is my number one problem. However, my BSD problem goes like this. I just installed for the first time FreeBSD ver 3.4 on a brand new machine sharing Win2000. My machine has the following - MSI K7T Turbo-r Motherboard with AMD 1.2GHZ chip and 512m ram Seagate Barracuda ATA III 40G hard drive set up LBA with the BIOS saying it has 4865cyl - 255h - 63s Pioneer 16x DVD drive Video card out of a one yr old Gateway machine - don't know the make and model, find out if necessary floppy I already had to Windows partitions defined. I installed according to the installation instructions in "The Complete FreeBSD by Greg Lehey" 3rd edition. The install seemed to go fine. The only error I encountered was - "Unable to transfer the PC98 - Servers/x9TGU distribution from Acd0c" I did select to have the Boot manager installed. On the first reboot after install the boot manager appeared as - F1: ?? F2: ?? F3: FreeBSD Default F3 This is where it hangs. I can reboot and press F1 to go into Windows but no matter if I leave the default at F3 or press F3 it never boots BSD and the hard drive light does not come on. I have verified that the hd geometry, during install, is the same as in the bios. I tried to boot from a floppy and specify boot: hd()kernel as specified in the above book on page 101 but I never see the boot: prompt and I've hit keys in several places during the boot off floppy but nothing. It just carries me on into the install procedures. I have not been successful looking in the online doc or the web site. This is surely due to my ignorance of BSD. I would highly appreciate any help and would be glad to supply any other info I can that may help. Thanks, Jason Litz jlitz@mindspring.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message