From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Dec 7 16:58: 3 2000 From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 7 16:58:01 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from 1nova.com (sub24-23.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.24.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6621E37B401 for ; Thu, 7 Dec 2000 16:58:01 -0800 (PST) Received: by 1nova.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DC1FF18B5; Wed, 6 Dec 2000 17:21:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by 1nova.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D35B018B3; Wed, 6 Dec 2000 17:21:34 +0000 (GMT) Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 17:21:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Rick Hamell To: Liberat0r Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: newbie problem In-Reply-To: <000801c060b0$15ac5520$9fcdfea9@collin01> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hamellr@1nova.com Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Please ask questions in -questions, that's what it's for. You'll get more answers there. -newbies is not for technical questions at all. Thanks much! Rick ******************************************************************* Rick's FreeBSD Web page http://heorot.1nova.com/freebsd Ace Logan's Hardware Guide http://www.shatteredcrystal.net/hardware ***FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! http://www.freebsd.org On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Liberat0r wrote: > I am sure you have heard this a million times but.... when I installed freebsd 3.x from the 3rd edition of "the complete freeBSD" book the installer told me that it couldn't format root and it was quitting, it said it left an error log. when I boot up my system ( with all compliant hardware) I get to the boot manager's boot: prompt and it says I have 1 option f1 for free bsd, yet when I try to boot typing in freeBSD or pressing f1, it says no /boot/loader yet I installed the boot loader on installation, ( I even reinstalled to be sure). I really want to set up free bsd and play with it so I would appreciate some help in this matter. if you need more specifics please email me back. I have a 4 gb Maxtor and a p2 300 with and Intel 440 bx mobo all the hardware worked fine with redhat 6.0 and 7.0 > > thank you very much for your time > > Collin Greene > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message