From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 10 14: 1:11 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 57DD837B401 for ; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 14:01:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from magidesign.com (w178.z064001046.atl-ga.dsl.cnc.net [64.1.46.178]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 620EF43F3F for ; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 14:01:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from payne@magidesign.com) Received: from cpaynexp ([64.25.7.74]) by magidesign.com (8.12.3/8.12.2/SuSE Linux 0.6) with SMTP id h1ALsfwE009465; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 16:54:43 -0500 From: "Chuck Payne" To: "Daxbert" , "Chuck Payne" , Subject: RE: FreeBSD Loader Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 17:01:02 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <060301c2d148$cec28420$0a0aa8c0@dweebsoft.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Importance: Normal 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 did that. The bootloader comes up but it gives this error... FreeBSD/i386 boot Default: 0:da(0,a)F1 boot: It does show the two slices that I created F1 FreeBSD F2 FreeBSD The root is on F2, F1 is the FreeBSD Swap. I hope that, Thanks, Chuck Payne -----Original Message----- From: Daxbert [mailto:daxbert_news@dweebsoft.com] Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 4:10 PM To: Chuck Payne; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Loader > 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