Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 23:35:46 +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: <42055852.2050804@cis.strath.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <6.2.1.2.2.20050205172020.00c5db48@cheyenne.wixb.com> References: <6.2.1.2.2.20050205170724.00c56c78@cheyenne.wixb.com> <42055475.5020807@cis.strath.ac.uk> <6.2.1.2.2.20050205172020.00c5db48@cheyenne.wixb.com>
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J.D. Bronson wrote: > 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. > My /boot/loader.rc file looks like this: /boot$ cat loader.rc \ Loader.rc \ $FreeBSD: src/sys/boot/i386/loader/loader.rc,v 1.2 2003/11/21 19:01:02 dcs Exp $ \ \ Includes additional commands include /boot/loader.4th \ Reads and processes loader.rc start \ Tests for password -- executes autoboot first if a password was defined check-password \ Load in the boot menu include /boot/beastie.4th \ Start the boot menu beastie-start This seems to be the place where you get it to load the right things...check that out. I am no expert btw. :) Chris
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