Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 22:25:39 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Yixin Jin <yjin@CS.UCLA.EDU> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot manager cannot proceed Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980112222501.22079W-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <34B6C65E.191A@cs.ucla.edu>
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On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Yixin Jin wrote: > Hi folks, > > My freebsd has some problems after I used one DOS boot disk to boot the > machine. At the first time, the boot manager can find BSD partition, but > whenever it started extract the kernel, it halted. Then I let the boot > manager be rewriten, this time, whenever I press F1 key it just cannot > proceed, and keep giving me boot manager prompt again and again. This is caused by an improper geometry setup. You'll have to reinstall to fix it. Stick a small DOS partition on the disk, boot the boot floppy, remove the DOS partition and install FreeBSD over it. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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