From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 25 17:56:01 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA25825 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 17:55:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from frontier.netnology.com.au (frontier.netnology.com.au [203.33.30.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA25817 for ; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 17:55:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from craig@frontier.netnology.com.au) Received: from localhost (craig@localhost) by frontier.netnology.com.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA05571; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 10:26:43 +0800 Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 10:26:42 +0800 (WST) From: Craig Beasland To: Laurence Berland cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Uh oh In-Reply-To: <36ACC4EA.A4E7D078@confusion.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Laurence, I have just had this same problem, and it turns out it was due to the mode of the hard drive. I move the drive from one computer which was using auto mode to another which was using LBA mode. It would not work until I set the second computer to Normal mode (I assume that the old computer Auto meant normal). As soon as I changed it the problem disappeared. cheers craig On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Laurence Berland wrote: > I installed FBSD, sort of. I posted this before, now I'm getting > desperate for help. If anyone knows what to do please help!!!! > > we've installed freebsd. We rebooted the system and the boot manager > appeared, prompting us to > F1 for ??? (which turned out is what it meant as win98) > F2 for FreeBSD > > We hit f2, and the manager just repeats its window. It does this > always, and as of yet we've not been able to get to a BSD prompt at all, > > or to get it to even begin booting fbsd. We've tried using the > installation software to rewrite the boot manager, but it doesn't change > > anything. I'm completely stumped. Do we need to reinstall FreeBSD? > Could it be that the error was because we made a second dos partition > with the boot manager also? We deleted the second dos partition to try > and fix the problem, but nothing changes. What do I do now? > > -- > Laurence Berland, Stuyvesant HS Debate > <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> > > I wish I knew, I wish I knew > what makes me, me, and what makes you, you. > It's just another point of view, ooo. > A state of mind I'm going through, yes. > So what I see is never true, ahhh. > -"I wish" Cat Stevens (Yusef Islam) > http://stuy.debate.net http://evilfred.home.ml.org yes they're different > > icq #7434346 aol imer E1101 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message