Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 03:53:11 -0500 From: W Gerald Hicks <wghicks@bellsouth.net> To: stuyman@confusion.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD has disappeared after multi-os installation Message-ID: <19990124035311W.wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 24 Jan 1999 01:30:57 -0500" <36AABE21.4A61B941@confusion.net> References: <36AABE21.4A61B941@confusion.net>
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Ouch! No fun :-( What is the geometry of your disk (cylinders/head/sectors)? Which version of FreeBSD are you loading? Cheers, Jerry Hicks wghicks@bellsouth.net From: Laurence Berland <stuyman@confusion.net> Subject: FreeBSD has disappeared after multi-os installation Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 01:30:57 -0500 > We worked out the other problems that I was mailing in about, and now > we've installed freebsd. We rebooted the system and the boot manager > appeared, prompting us to > F1 for ??? (which turned out is what it meant as win98) > F2 for FreeBSD > > We hit f2, and the manager just repeats its window. It does this > always, and as of yet we've not been able to get to a BSD prompt at all, > or to get it to even begin booting fbsd. We've tried using the > installation software to rewrite the boot manager, but it doesn't change > anything. I'm completely stumped. Do we need to reinstall FreeBSD? > Could it be that the error was because we made a second dos partition > with the boot manager also? We deleted the second dos partition to try > and fix the problem, but nothing changes. What do I do now? > > -- > Laurence > The Newbie who can't install FBSD > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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