From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 14 21:23: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A35B137B400 for ; Sun, 14 Jul 2002 21:23:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail7.nc.rr.com (mail7.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC5D243E58 for ; Sun, 14 Jul 2002 21:22:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bts@fake.com) Received: from sakura.fake.com ([66.26.254.93]) by mail7.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Mon, 15 Jul 2002 00:22:47 -0400 Received: by sakura.fake.com (Postfix, from userid 111) id F2B13BB2C; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 00:22:39 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian T.Schellenberger To: "Marc Freeman" , Subject: Re: FreeBSD installation problem Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 00:22:39 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <000801c22bb8$c98f8c40$3bbd8490@nsw.bigpond.net.au> In-Reply-To: <000801c22bb8$c98f8c40$3bbd8490@nsw.bigpond.net.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020715042239.F2B13BB2C@sakura.fake.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well, the message is perfectly normal & correct. It should, however, boot up FreeBSD 10 seconds later, or immediately if you hit F1 or Enter. So are we to gather that it hangs instead? Is that correct? On Monday 15 July 2002 12:33 am, Marc Freeman wrote: | Hi i am trying to installed freeBSD 4.6. but on booting i keep on getting | the message | | F1 FreeBSD | Default: F1 | - | i have read the FAQ's which say to put a small dos partition at the | beginning of the drive but this has not worked. only giving a - (dash) at | startup. any suggestions would be most appreciable & thanks in advance | marc:-) -- Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) http://www.babbleon.org http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message