From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 18 5:13:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mip.co.za (puck.mip.co.za [209.212.106.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76A4E37B408 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 05:13:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from patrick (patrick.mip.co.za [10.3.13.181]) by mip.co.za (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA65440 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 14:13:51 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from patrick@mip.co.za) From: "Patrick O'Reilly" To: "FreeBSD Question List" Subject: RE: Boot Won't !!! Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 14:16:54 +0200 Message-ID: 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 IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal 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 Well - go figure!!! Here's the problem: (and it just might have something to do with disk geometry as was suggested earlier?) I had used the SCSI controller's utility to do a low-level format of the disk before I ever tried installing the OS. But that would not let BSD boot. Now, I put in a new 'virgin' disk and installed from CD and it's all OK. Quite why the SCSI controller's format messes with the boot-ability of the disk is beyond me - perhaps someone smart out there might care to explain it to us? Patrick. > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Patrick > O'Reilly > Sent: 18 October 2001 12:39 > To: FreeBSD Question List > Subject: Boot Won't !!! > > > OK - I'm stumped - and probably doing something real dumb... > > I've installed 4.3 from the CD1 onto an Intel Tupelo MB, dual processor, > with 2 18G Cheetah SCSI disks under AIC 7899 onboard chipset. Nothing > fancy - just plain standard installation. (512M swap slice and > 17.5G / slice > on Disk 0, didn't do Disk 1 yet) > > Now she won't boot! I tried with the standard MBR - stops saying "missing > operating system". I tried with FreeBSD Boot manager - I get: > ------------------------------- > F1 FreeBSD > F5 Drive 1 > > Default: F1 _ > > ------------------------------- > but its dead - pressing F1 or Enter (or anything else) yields NO RESPONSE. > > Someone - PLEASE klobber me with the clue stick :) > > Patrick. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message