From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Aug 10 16:13:39 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7ABB99E45F for ; Mon, 10 Aug 2015 16:13:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joji@eskimo.com) Received: from mail.eskimo.com (mail.eskimo.com [204.122.16.4]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B9364319 for ; Mon, 10 Aug 2015 16:13:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joji@eskimo.com) Received: from shellx.eskimo.com (shellx.eskimo.com [204.122.16.2]) by mail.eskimo.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42FB458A; Mon, 10 Aug 2015 09:10:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: by shellx.eskimo.com (Postfix, from userid 51518) id EC15C2F70; Mon, 10 Aug 2015 09:10:33 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 09:10:33 -0700 From: Joseph Olatt To: reg@dwf.com Cc: FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: Can't boot FreeBSD. Message-ID: <20150810161033.GA23097@eskimo.com> References: <201508092246.t79MkXmO001514@deneb.dwf.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201508092246.t79MkXmO001514@deneb.dwf.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.98.7 at mail.eskimo.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 16:13:39 -0000 On Sun, Aug 09, 2015 at 04:46:33PM -0600, reg@dwf.com wrote: > > I have done what appears to be a clean install of FreeBSD 10.1, > but on the 'reboot' the intel boot falls thru to the ethernet > boot, as if there isn't any info in the boot block. > > I have tried this install on two different disks on this machine > with the same results (changing the BIOS to get to the 2nd disk). > > There was once a copy of PCBSD running on this machine, so its > got to be possible to get FreeBSD up, but I just seem to be > waisting time trying to get it up. > > Any thoughts? > I would really like to get FreeBSD up on this box. Could be a couple of issues here: (1) MBR does not contain boot0 image, like you said. (2) BIOS is not seeing the hard disks. For #1, I would try the "automatic partionting" (or whatever that is called). If that is what you were using, then wonder why MBR is not getting written out. For #1 & #2, I would try a quick install with another OS (like OpenBSD or Linux) to see if the behavior is different. If the other OS boots up then you could focus on why MBR is not getting populated.