Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 23:19:17 +0000 From: Chris Hodgins <chodgins@cis.strath.ac.uk> To: "J.D. Bronson" <jbronson@wixb.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: repost of boot issue on 5.3 Message-ID: <42055475.5020807@cis.strath.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <6.2.1.2.2.20050205170724.00c56c78@cheyenne.wixb.com> References: <6.2.1.2.2.20050205170724.00c56c78@cheyenne.wixb.com>
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J.D. Bronson wrote: > No one responded - I am sure someone out there knows what the deal is > here... > > I did a full install from CDROM on a fresh new clean drive. > Freebsd is the ONLY OS on the drive. And i used the entire drive. > I selected the standard boot manager (not the freebsd one)... > > and all the install went fine. This is what I see when I reboot after > install: > > FreeBSD/i386 BOOT > Default: 0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader > boot: > > > ..and it JUST SITS there. If I hit the return key, it will boot up into > the beastie menu and boot fine. How can I get this machine to boot up on > its OWN? > > The boot startup sequence on the machine is HARD DRIVE THEN CDROM. > This is the only hard drive in the system. > > Please if anyone knows how to fix this?? - A fresh install with a fresh > drive....and still no luck. > > This might give you a few ideas. :) http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot-blocks.html#BOOT-BOOT1 Chris
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