Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 17:20:51 -0600 From: "J.D. Bronson" <jbronson@wixb.com> To: Chris Hodgins <chodgins@cis.strath.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: repost of boot issue on 5.3 Message-ID: <6.2.1.2.2.20050205172020.00c5db48@cheyenne.wixb.com> In-Reply-To: <42055475.5020807@cis.strath.ac.uk> References: <6.2.1.2.2.20050205170724.00c56c78@cheyenne.wixb.com> <42055475.5020807@cis.strath.ac.uk>
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At 05:19 PM 2/5/2005, Chris Hodgins wrote: >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 I tried this (even tho a full install it SHOULD not be needed) and I still get the same darn thing. I am really disappointed as I dont know why its hanging. -- J.D. Bronson Aurora Health Care // Information Services // Milwaukee, WI USA Office: 414.978.8282 // Email: jd@aurora.org // Pager: 414.314.8282 Reach me at AIM:lonebanditusa //
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