From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 1 08:58:28 2003 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 CDC6816A4CE for ; Mon, 1 Dec 2003 08:58:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com (out2.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6D0F43FAF for ; Mon, 1 Dec 2003 08:58:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nkinkade@fastmail.fm) X-Sasl-enc: qB3E4d53IQdG/qBdOm6Sug 1070297884 Received: from [206.26.199.146] (unknown [206.26.199.146]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB184454CEA for ; Mon, 1 Dec 2003 11:58:03 -0500 (EST) Received: from nkinkade by [206.26.199.146] with local (Exim 4.12) id 1AQrMs-000N1o-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 01 Dec 2003 10:57:50 -0600 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 10:57:49 -0600 From: Nathan Kinkade To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20031201165749.GK15894@npkfbsd> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="NqNl6FRZtoRUn5bW" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: Nathan Kinkade Subject: boot loader won't boot freebsd slice X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Nathan Kinkade List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 16:58:28 -0000 --NqNl6FRZtoRUn5bW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The hard disk in my laptop went bad so I just dropped in a new one and did a standard install, putting a small DOS partition at the beginning on which to install the thinkpad bios configuration utility. For some reason the freebsd bootloader will boot DOS on the first slice, but only beeps when I try to boot to the FreeBSD slice. It would seem that the bootloader isn't aware that there is any bootable OS at that slice, like maybe the bootblocks on that slice are missing or incorrect. I have already tried a complete reinstall and playing around with marking slices as active and not. I know that the slice is has a valid OS because I can use the install disks to boot to that slice. I have also tried using the 'packet' option on boot0cfg to no effect. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks, Nathan --=20 gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys D8527E49 --NqNl6FRZtoRUn5bW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/y3MNO0ZIEthSfkkRApysAKDW58c6YSKuX2NXvpfjOCXyKiT1SACff182 VaI+EIHShaZs3ffZPg5hg9E= =/DKE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --NqNl6FRZtoRUn5bW--