From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 6 7:47:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from postmarq.mu.edu (hermes.mu.edu [134.48.1.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEA0A37B479 for ; Mon, 6 Nov 2000 07:47:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from marquette.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by postmarq.mu.edu (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id G3M17T00.9EZ; Mon, 6 Nov 2000 09:47:53 -0600 From: Jeremy Vandenhouten To: killbot@pacbell.net, questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20d6ff209fba.209fba20d6ff@marquette.edu> Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 09:47:53 -0600 X-Mailer: Netscape Webmail MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Language: en Subject: Re: non-booting bsd newbie X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I had this problem when installing 3.5.1 on an older 486, it usually indicates that the floppy cable has been attached backwards, or that there is a physical defect with the drive. As a workaround, have you tried disabling the floppy altogether in the bios? This will allow you to also ascertain whether the floppy has undergone hardware failure. ----- Original Message ----- From: killbot@pacbell.net Date: Saturday, November 4, 2000 2:40 pm Subject: non-booting bsd newbie > hello everybody- > i've just install bsd for the first time. i installed via ftp and > everything went great. well, that is up until it was time to > boot off > the disk. the floppy disk llight comes on and stays on as if it's > looking for something. anyway, there must be a way to rewrite the mbr > and/or verify the boot loader. i manually mounted each of the > filesystems and it's all good. > > here's a list of my partitions > device mount pt. > ad0s1a / > ad0s1b swap > ad0s2e /home > ad0s2f /usr > > thanks > -brent a. thorne > > > > 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