From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Apr 6 17:49:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0F3E37BF01 for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 17:49:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djohnson@acuson.com) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.69.47]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA5AF1; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 17:49:49 -0700 Message-ID: <38ED3012.57717D3B@acuson.com> Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 17:47:14 -0700 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Seyyed Hamid Reza Hashemi Golpayegani Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot Problem ! References: <000501bfa025$3dfd2e60$051414c8@hamid> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Seyyed Hamid Reza Hashemi Golpayegani wrote: > I have installing FreeBSD 4.0 from CDROM and when the system comes up boot > loader show me 3 choises : > F1 Dos > F2 FreeBSD > F3 FreeBSD > > When I want to select 2 or 3 and press F2 and F3 it does not work only F1 > works . > What is the problem ? I'm certainly not an expert (this is freebsd-newbies after all), but I know what I would look closer at. The second two entries are primary partitions. The initial boot loader just knows what partitions are available and what their types are. It then passes on control to the next stage boot loader in the boot record of the chosen partition (BSD has three boot loaders for the various stages of booting). If neither F2 or F3 boot, then the next boot loader is not there. I believe that this is boot1. I also assume that it was probably meant to go on the second partition F2. You may have to reinstall all over again. But you might not have to go all the way through. Don't repartition, just assign the same partitions as you did before, install the boot loader, then exit the installation. I suspect that somewhere in this area you made the wrong choice. Make sure that the boot loader is installed to the boot sector of the root partition, and make sure that this partition does not extend beyond the 1024th cylinder. If all else fails, reinstall completely. Every unix expert you will ever meet will have at one time or another botched something up and had to reinstall. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message