From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 16 11: 3:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from penguin-ext.wise.edt.ericsson.se (penguin-ext.wise.edt.ericsson.se [194.237.142.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AED937B718 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 11:03:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ismat.halabi@ericsson.com) Received: from nic.era-a.ericsson.se (nic.era-a.ericsson.se [147.214.165.220]) by penguin.wise.edt.ericsson.se (8.11.0/8.10.1/WIREfire-1.3) with ESMTP id f2GJ3Ld25386 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 20:03:22 +0100 (MET) Received: from ericsson.com (yellow324.era-a.ericsson.se [147.214.24.24]) by nic.era-a.ericsson.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA06159 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 20:03:18 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <3AB2636B.65922BCE@ericsson.com> Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 20:03:08 +0100 From: Ismat Halabi Organization: Ericsson Radio Systems X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.8 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Cannot boot after completed installation! Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------90903AEA381D358DF0F747D6" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --------------90903AEA381D358DF0F747D6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit HI, I have successfully installed FreeBSD 4.2 from CDROM on my PC hard disk. Yet I cannot boot from hard disk although it has less than 1024 cylinders! What is the problem? When I tried to follow the first suggestion in 1.9 in the FAQ (http://www.freebsd.org/docs/en/books/faq/install.html), it did not work either. I got the message "Cannot write to file bootsav.bin," although the installation table says bsd is bootable and has a boot partition. <1.9. Windows 95/98 killed my boot manager! How do I get it bootinst.exe boot.bin < and the boot manager will be reinstalled. Trying with the second option (se below) did not help either. -- > Boot the FreeBSD boot floppy again and go to the Custom installation menu item. Choose > Partition. Select the drive which used to contain your boot manager (likely the first one) and when > you come to the partition editor for it, as the very first thing (e.g. do not make any changes) select > (W)rite. This will ask for confirmation, say yes, and when you get the Boot Manager selection > prompt, be sure to select Boot Manager. This will re-write the boot manager to disk. Now quit out of > > the installation menu and reboot off the hard disk as normal. > Regards, Ismat Ismat Halabi mailto:ismat.halabi@ericsson.com IP-BSS/RNS System Management & Design Ericsson Radio Systems http://www.ericsson.com Gullfossgatan 4 164 80 Stockholm Sweden Ph +46-8-585 33878 Fax +46-8-75 70354 Mobile +46-70-631 02 99 --------------90903AEA381D358DF0F747D6 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit HI,

I have successfully installed FreeBSD 4.2 from CDROM on my PC hard disk. Yet I cannot boot from hard disk although it has less than 1024 cylinders! What is the problem?

When I tried to follow the first suggestion in 1.9 in the FAQ (http://www.freebsd.org/docs/en/books/faq/install.html), it did not work either. I got the message "Cannot write to file bootsav.bin," although the installation table says bsd is bootable and has a boot partition.
 

<1.9. Windows 95/98 killed my boot manager! How do I get it <back?

<You can reinstall the boot manager FreeBSD comes with in <one of three ways:

<    Running DOS, go into the tools/ directory of your FreeBSD <distribution and look for bootinst.exe.
   < You run it like so:

<        ...\TOOLS> bootinst.exe boot.bin

<    and the boot manager will be reinstalled. 

Trying with the second option (se below) did not help either.
--
Boot the FreeBSD boot floppy again and go to the Custom installation menu item. Choose
    Partition. Select the drive which used to contain your boot manager (likely the first one) and when
    you come to the partition editor for it, as the very first thing (e.g. do not make any changes) select
    (W)rite. This will ask for confirmation, say yes, and when you get the Boot Manager selection
    prompt, be sure to select Boot Manager. This will re-write the boot manager to disk. Now quit out of

    the installation menu and reboot off the hard disk as normal.

Regards,
Ismat

Ismat Halabi            mailto:ismat.halabi@ericsson.com IP-BSS/RNS System Management & Design Ericsson Radio Systems  http://www.ericsson.com Gullfossgatan 4         164 80 Stockholm        Sweden Ph +46-8-585 33878      Fax +46-8-75 70354     Mobile +46-70-631 02 99 --------------90903AEA381D358DF0F747D6-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message