From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 15 02:49:55 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org 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 A985B16A4DD for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 02:49:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pramod@dvnull.org) Received: from thor.novesolutions.com (thor.novesolutions.com [64.127.103.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74FAF43D45 for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 02:49:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pramod@dvnull.org) Received: from [192.168.1.90] (c-67-168-71-246.hsd1.wa.comcast.net [67.168.71.246]) by thor.novesolutions.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F14C1577F3; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 19:49:54 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <10608150224.AA25564@pluto.rain.com> References: <10608150224.AA25564@pluto.rain.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v749.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Pramod Venugopal Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 19:49:53 -0700 To: Perry Hutchison X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.749.3) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new 6.1 install will not boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 02:49:55 -0000 Do you get the FreeBSD boot menu ? Pramod Venugopal pramod@dvnull.org On Aug 14, 2006, at 7:24 PM, Perry Hutchison wrote: > I've just installed FreeBSD 6.1 on a Dell Pentium III, and I must have > done something wrong -- or missed a step -- somewhere along the way. > > When trying to boot, I do not get even as far as the situation > described in sec. 4.2.5 of the installation instructions. The system > hangs, with a completely blank screen and the curson on (I think) the > second line, immediately after the BIOS loads the boot record from the > FreeBSD partition. Keyboard input is ignored except for CtrlAltDel, > which reboots and hangs again the same way. Booting a Windows 98 CD > and running fdisk confirms that the FreeBSD partition is active. > > I'm not even getting anywhere trying to read the documentation: > I can still boot from the FreeBSD CD, but if I try to view the HTML > docs from the Doc menu it says this can only be done after the system > is installed. (The system *has* been installed, it just won't boot!) > > Is there any way to recover from this? Even if I were to start > completely over I would have no clue what to do differently. > If it were a Linux installation I would try booting from floppy, > but I did not see any chance during the FreeBSD installation to > create a boot floppy. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- > unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >