Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 18:13:19 -0500 (CDT) From: "Eric M. Johnston" <ejohnst@green.mail.postal.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Problems Booting HD Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970810175250.6807A-100000@green.mail.postal.net>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Greetings, I'm having some trouble booting a newly installed FreeBSD partition. At the boot manager prompt ("Default: ...") I've got the options of F1, dos, and F2, BSD. My obligatory DOS partion boots fine, yet the BSD one refuses to boot: pressing F2 just causes it to repeat the choices and "Default: F?" prompt. Now, I searched the mailing list archvies, and found many messages with a similar question, but no real answers (or, at least, no answers that apply and work in my case). So, the details: Did Novice Install from FreeBSD 2.2.2 CD-ROM onto an IDE HD IDE HD is ~540MB, set as the primary (and only) IDE HD HD cylinders: 1046, heads: 16, sectors: 63 - I've double checked this with the installation program - it appears to get it right I also have an Adaptec 2940U installed (CD drive is SCSI), but same problem when I remove it Intel Pentium Pro MB (AMI BIOS?) Boots fine from floppy using "wd(o,a)/kernel" Installation CD-ROM boots very nicely on its own (surprised me the first time) DOS partion (first 25MB of HD) boots fine I did a "fdisk /mbr" from DOS and reinstalled FreeBSD and the boot manager as suggested in the mailing list archives - hasn't helped Thanks for your help - I'm ready to get this computer going! Eric
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.LNX.3.95.970810175250.6807A-100000>