Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 15:36:26 -0800 From: Nathan Boeger <nathan@khmere.com> To: "freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: 4.2-RELEASE will not boot after install ? Message-ID: <3A2ECD7A.1E6A1FF3@khmere.com>
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Don't know if I should post here but.... I just installed 4.2-RELEASE onto a ppro 200 (had linux) the install went without a hich. Then when I rebooted, the box just stopped. It seemed like it could not read the mbr. So I booted again off the floppies and I used the loader to switched the currdev to the harddrive (disk1s1a) it found the hardrive. I then loaded the kernel from the harddrive and booted off the harddrive. After I was up on the box I then ran disklabel -B ad0 and thought that maybe the installation did not add the boot reccord info. Rebooted agian to have the same problem as before. I then tried it agian with the flags for the boot code, no luck. Finally I dd out the first 512 blocks of the harddrive and ran strings on it. Seems that thier was nothing their ! so I was lucky enough to have another 4.2 box and I just copied its first 512 blocks. Now it boots fine ! Is their a known issue with this ? or maybe I did something wrong ? thank you nathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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