From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 14 02:31:39 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 8EAE716A401 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 02:31:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from v.velox@vvelox.net) Received: from mail07.powweb.com (mail07.powweb.com [66.152.97.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 512BC43D49 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 02:31:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from v.velox@vvelox.net) Received: from vixen42.vulpes (24-119-205-114.cpe.cableone.net [24.119.205.114]) by mail07.powweb.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A49414DC7E; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 18:31:38 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:43:53 -0600 From: Vulpes Velox To: NevTide Message-ID: <20060313204353.041b958f@vixen42.vulpes> In-Reply-To: <20060313142532.9495.qmail@web60916.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20060313142532.9495.qmail@web60916.mail.yahoo.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.0.0 (GTK+ 2.8.12; i386-portbld-freebsd5.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installs fine, but won't boot. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 02:31:39 -0000 On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 06:25:32 -0800 (PST) NevTide wrote: > I've been trying to get FreeBSD to run on my Toshiba > Satellite (m45 359). I tried a couple of times with > version 6.0 and the install went fine, but the > computer doesn't seem to recognize the drive as being > bootable. (So I experimented with a couple different > options: standard boot manager, bsd boot manager, > setting the partition (yes, it's a primary) to > bootable, even erasing the whole drive and allocating > it to FreeBSD. Regardless of what I've tried, the boot > sequence doesn't see a hardrive and skips it. > > Also tried 5.4, but that freezes on booting the > install cd (probably just need to disable acpi) but I > really don't want 5.4 anyways. > > Currently I'm writing this from ubuntu dapper (as a > test) - install went smooth and grub loaded with no > problem but I'd really prefer to get back to bsd. > > Thanks for anyway help or feedback. This is probally not the case, but when you got it would it boot windows properly and if not will it boot properly if you hit ctl+alt+del? I've seen hard drives get skipped over before because of some what slow spin up times.