From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 25 17:58:20 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA26423 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 17:58:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ciao.cc.columbia.edu (ciao.cc.columbia.edu [128.59.35.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA26410 for ; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 17:58:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stuyman@confusion.net) Received: from confusion.net (dialup-1-23.cc.columbia.edu [128.59.42.32]) by ciao.cc.columbia.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA07128; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:58:00 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <36AD211B.63385098@confusion.net> Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:57:47 -0500 From: Laurence Berland Organization: B.R.A.T.T. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Craig Beasland CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Uh oh References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yeah, I've heard of that problem but LBA is disabled already. I;m still stuck. Thanks for the suggestion though. Craig Beasland wrote: > 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 > > -- 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