From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 10 13:10:20 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8FA937B401 for ; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 13:10:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from ra.dweebsoft.com (ra.dweebsoft.com [209.237.40.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 253EF43FA3 for ; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 13:10:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from daxbert_news@dweebsoft.com) Received: from daxhome (anubis.dweebsoft.com [64.81.58.36]) by ra.dweebsoft.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with SMTP id h1ALAFR5031225; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 13:10:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from daxbert_news@dweebsoft.com) Message-ID: <060301c2d148$cec28420$0a0aa8c0@dweebsoft.com> From: "Daxbert" To: "Chuck Payne" , References: Subject: Re: FreeBSD Loader Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 13:10:15 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4920.2300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4920.2300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I am trying to install FreeBSD 5.0, but everytime I install it and reboot > the FreeBSD bootloader won't boot FreeBSD, is there a trick that I need to > know to get this working? What do I need to read or do? > > > Chuck Payne I've had this problem occur when I forget to set the partition as bootable/active during the "fdisk" portion of the install. You need to mark the partition as bootable (aka active) as well as install a bootloader to the MBR --daxbert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message