From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 22 19:24:25 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id TAA16910 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 22 Oct 1995 19:24:25 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA16893 for ; Sun, 22 Oct 1995 19:24:14 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id LAA01534; Mon, 23 Oct 1995 11:48:54 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199510230218.LAA01534@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Can't boot To: nathan@netrail.net (Nathan Stratton) Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 11:48:53 +0930 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Nathan Stratton" at Oct 22, 95 07:29:23 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1155 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Nathan Stratton stands accused of saying: > I just installed FreeBSD 2.0.5 on a P133 wiht 64 megs RAM and a Adaptec > 2940 PCI SCSI card. The install went great but when it rebooted it gave > me Default: F? and would not let me hit F1 like it did on other server I > installed FreeBSD on. How can I get pass this? Can I use the boot disk You specified the wrong geometry for the disk when you installed. The partitions on the disk aren't where they should be. You _MUST_ specify geometry that matches the BIOS geometry as reported by the controller, during the installation process. If you fail to do this, the BIOS can't find the beginning of the BSD partition, and you will be unable to boot. > Nathan Stratton CEO, NetRail, Inc. Your Gateway to the World! -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[