From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 5 23:31:11 2005 Return-Path: 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 BA65A16A4CE for ; Sat, 5 Feb 2005 23:31:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtphost.cis.strath.ac.uk (smtphost.cis.strath.ac.uk [130.159.196.96]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E38C43D3F for ; Sat, 5 Feb 2005 23:31:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chodgins@cis.strath.ac.uk) Received: from [192.168.0.4] (chrishodgins.force9.co.uk [84.92.20.141]) j15NV1B0019454; Sat, 5 Feb 2005 23:31:01 GMT Message-ID: <42055852.2050804@cis.strath.ac.uk> Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 23:35:46 +0000 From: Chris Hodgins User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050204) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "J.D. Bronson" 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> In-Reply-To: <6.2.1.2.2.20050205172020.00c5db48@cheyenne.wixb.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-CIS-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support@cis.strath.ac.uk for more information X-CIS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-CIS-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=0, required 6) X-CIS-MailScanner-From: chodgins@cis.strath.ac.uk cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: repost of boot issue on 5.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 23:31:11 -0000 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