From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 13 16:45:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA00946 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 13 Jan 1998 16:20:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA06814 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 1998 15:32:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA22600; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 22:25:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 22:25:39 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Yixin Jin cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot manager cannot proceed In-Reply-To: <34B6C65E.191A@cs.ucla.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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