From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 12 15:22:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail3.rdc1.on.home.com (femail3.rdc1.on.home.com [24.2.9.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2399537B424; Sat, 12 May 2001 15:22:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjm88@home.com) Received: from home.com ([24.114.151.37]) by femail3.rdc1.on.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20010512222202.BSEW29522.femail3.rdc1.on.home.com@home.com>; Sat, 12 May 2001 15:22:02 -0700 Message-ID: <3AFDB83F.3DAFC615@home.com> Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 18:25:03 -0400 From: cjm88@home.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,fr,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Russell Cc: "Hartmann, O." , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE Install problems, BOOT FAILURE after freshinstallation References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Interesting... I had the problem with both 4.2 and 4.3... I am absolutely certain that I set the partition to 'Active' during the install process and that I selected the 'Normal MBR' option when prompted for what to do. I tested with a drive that had not been 'dangerously dedicated' and everything worked fine... so... maybe the problem arises (or the bug is aggrevated) when doing an install on a device that had been previously 'dangerously dedicated'.... the other symptom that I noticed is that when I tried to install again after a failed install... the partition info was there but the partition that I had selected to be active was no longer marked active. Thanks for your thoughts C Doug Russell wrote: > On Sat, 12 May 2001 cjm88@home.com wrote: > > > I had the exact same problem with similar hardware. My problem arose it, seemed, because the drive I was using had been previously > > dangerously dedicated. After multiple failed installs I decided to see if I could create a DOS partition and format it with the /S option. > > That worked so I tried installing FreeBSD again and everything worked fine from that point on. > > You probably neglected to write a standard boot manager to the disk. This > can be done in systinstall, but has historically not always worked > correctly. (You select Standard boot manager, but it installs None...) > You can also always boot with a DOS diskette and use 'fdisk /mbr' to write > a standard bot manager to the disk, or copy the first sector from a good > disk to the offending one using something like (bs=512 should be default): > > 'dd if=/dev/xxx of=/dev/xxx bs=512 count=1' > > I've had to do this more than once before. Perhaps this was your problem. > > Later...... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message