From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Aug 10 17:06:03 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 CCD6E99E141 for ; Mon, 10 Aug 2015 17:06:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from paul@ifdnrg.com) Received: from outbound.ifdnrg.com (outbound.ifdnrg.com [193.200.98.38]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 784DF6B8 for ; Mon, 10 Aug 2015 17:06:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from paul@ifdnrg.com) Received: from [192.168.1.230] (host-78-148-104-98.as13285.net [78.148.104.98]) (authenticated bits=0) by outbound.ifdnrg.com (8.15.2/8.14.9) with ESMTPSA id t7AGgJGn039959 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 10 Aug 2015 16:42:27 GMT (envelope-from paul@ifdnrg.com) X-Authentication-Warning: outbound.ifdnrg.com: Host host-78-148-104-98.as13285.net [78.148.104.98] claimed to be [192.168.1.230] Subject: Re: Can't boot FreeBSD. To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <201508092246.t79MkXmO001514@deneb.dwf.com> From: Paul Macdonald Message-ID: <55C8D46B.9090004@ifdnrg.com> Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 17:42:19 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <201508092246.t79MkXmO001514@deneb.dwf.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 17:06:03 -0000 On 09/08/2015 23:46, 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. hitting f11 or equivalent for your bios to get to the boot menu, and trying to select boot disks manually may be worth a try -- ------------------------- Paul Macdonald IFDNRG Ltd Web and video hosting ------------------------- t: 0131 5548070 m: 07970339546 e: paul@ifdnrg.com w: http://www.ifdnrg.com ------------------------- IFDNRG 40 Maritime Street Edinburgh EH6 6SA ---------------------------------------------------- High Specification Dedicated Servers from £100.00pm ----------------------------------------------------