From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 14 22:12:53 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 7B8B437B400 for ; Sun, 14 Jul 2002 22:12:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jeeves.velosystems.net (wsip68-15-85-238.oc.oc.cox.net [68.15.85.238]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F22CA43E31 for ; Sun, 14 Jul 2002 22:12:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steve@velosystems.net) Received: from localhost (localhost.velosystems.net [127.0.0.1]) by jeeves.velosystems.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3548FA7C4; Sun, 14 Jul 2002 22:12:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from daemon.velosystems.net (daemon.velosystems.net [192.168.1.11]) by jeeves.velosystems.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8021AA524; Sun, 14 Jul 2002 22:12:48 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: FreeBSD installation problem From: Steve Wingate To: Marc Freeman Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <000801c22bb8$c98f8c40$3bbd8490@nsw.bigpond.net.au> References: <000801c22bb8$c98f8c40$3bbd8490@nsw.bigpond.net.au> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 14 Jul 2002 22:12:48 -0700 Message-Id: <1026709968.6612.3.camel@daemon.velosystems.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 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 On Sun, 2002-07-14 at 21:33, 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:-) You've left out most all the details someone would need to help you. Namely: 1. Are you dualbooting? 2. If so, what OS's? 3. If not, why did you install the boot mgr instead of a standard MBR? 4. Did this boot at one time then stop working? 5. Did you try pressing F1? if so, what happened? Try to think about what someone who reads your question will ask and answer it before you hit the SEND button :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message