From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 15 7:28:53 2002 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 53CC537B400 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 07:28:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jeeves.velosystems.net (wsip68-15-85-238.oc.oc.cox.net [68.15.85.238]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C98A043E58 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 07:28:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steve@velosystems.net) Received: from localhost (localhost.velosystems.net [127.0.0.1]) by jeeves.velosystems.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3DCFA7CA; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 07:28:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from daemon.velosystems.net (daemon.velosystems.net [192.168.1.11]) by jeeves.velosystems.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23D0EA7C7; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 07:28:46 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: hanging after installation From: Steve Wingate To: Marc Freeman Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <002a01c22bc7$8c295340$3bbd8490@nsw.bigpond.net.au> References: <002a01c22bc7$8c295340$3bbd8490@nsw.bigpond.net.au> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 15 Jul 2002 07:28:45 -0700 Message-Id: <1026743326.291.0.camel@daemon.velosystems.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 2002-07-14 at 23:19, Marc Freeman wrote: > sorry if did not previously explain myself properly, my problem is as follows: > after completing the installation and rebooting the computer the following message appears and the computer hangs. > > F1 FreeBSD > Default: F1 > - > > hitting F1 or enter does not start the loading process. > what could be the cause of the problem? > > it is not a dualboot, and i have tried using both the boot mgr and standard MBR with the same effect. i have tried installing the whole distribution and a minimal distribution and this is my first freeBSD installation so it has not worked previously. > What is the size of the freebsd slice and where does it begin? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message