Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 08:02:49 -0800 (PST) From: NevTide <nevtide@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installs fine, but won't boot. Message-ID: <20060313160249.44449.qmail@web60914.mail.yahoo.com>
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--- Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> wrote: > > > > I've been trying to get FreeBSD to run on my > Toshiba > > Satellite (m45 359). I tried a couple of times > with > > version 6.0 and the install went fine, but the > > computer doesn't seem to recognize the drive as > being > > bootable. (So I experimented with a couple > different > > options: standard boot manager, bsd boot manager, > > setting the partition (yes, it's a primary) to > > bootable, even erasing the whole drive and > allocating > > it to FreeBSD. Regardless of what I've tried, the > boot > > sequence doesn't see a hardrive and skips it. > > Probbaly you have covered this, but that last > sentence inplies > a BIOS setting problem to me. Is the hard disk > in the BIOS > boot sequence and before any other devices with > media that is in > the system? (such as if CD is before hard disk in > the boot sequence > you may have to make sure there is no CD in the > drive to get to > the hard disk, same with a floppy). > > ////jerry Thanks for the reply, but the problem is really kind of strange. I suspected the BIOS as well, but I have the boot order set for CDROM > HDD > LAN > FDD (or something to that regard.) Everytime I tried booting, the computer would just try connecting to the LAN (cdrom was emty, but that will boot first without any problems when a disc is in the drive). I really thought the BSD boot manager would have been recognized like grub or winxp's. ?? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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