From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Nov 20 19:20:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A4FF37B401 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 19:20:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from mraught.homeip.net (pool-151-205-250-18.cap.east.verizon.net [151.205.250.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E85443E42 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 19:20:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mraught@acm.org) Received: from acm.org (music [10.0.0.39]) by mraught.homeip.net (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gAL3G7Lp018785; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 22:16:11 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3DDC5D3F.1080700@acm.org> Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 23:12:47 -0500 From: "Mark A-J. Raught (from the laptop)" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020623 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Y Ng Cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot stuck at F1 after swapping drives References: <001001c290f2$4a8cebf0$6401a8c0@aynlaptop0> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Andrew Y Ng wrote: >Hi all, I shutdown FreeBSD and changed my harddrive and booted up Win2K this >morning (needed Windoze for something real quick). I put the FreeBSD >harddrive back and it wouldn't boot, it got stuck at the F1 boot0 prompt. >Like it couldn't find the MBR or something. How do I get it to boot again? >This is weird. Maybe I didn't shut it down correctly this morning. > >Thanks for any help! > >/ayn > >-- >andrew y ng http://andrewng.com > >fingerprint : >46a1 29ff 893a 0381 dc81 1e1e bed8 e882 9bfc 594c > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message > > > Did you check the HD parameters in the BIOS? I seem to recall this happening when the geometry is entered (or detected) incorrectly. -mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message