From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 12 13:02:56 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9F9B16A4CE for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 13:02:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from zeus.acuson.com (ac17860.acuson.com [157.226.71.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4A4143F85 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 13:02:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DavidJohnson@Siemens.com) Received: from mvaexch02 ([157.226.230.209]:2944 helo=mvaexch02.acuson.com) by zeus.acuson.com with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 1AK28U-0002ff-45; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 13:02:46 -0800 Received: by mvaexch02.acuson.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2657.72) id ; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 12:58:18 -0800 Received: from dhcp-46-145.acuson.com ([157.226.46.145]) by mvaexch01.acuson.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2657.72) id VDNNCP0L; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 12:57:23 -0800 From: Johnson David To: mike bueide , freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Organization: Siemens Medical Systems Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 13:01:03 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <3FB27B5F.10105@bouncebk.com> <20031112193814.GA14546@charter.net> In-Reply-To: <20031112193814.GA14546@charter.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200311121301.03620.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *1AK28U-0002ff-45*byul9WjJ.b6* Subject: Re: Boot problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 21:02:56 -0000 On Wednesday 12 November 2003 11:38 am, mike bueide wrote: > I think I had this problem when I first started > also. Make sure that freebsd gets installed in > the ad0s2 slice (if using ide.) It will not boot > otherwise. At least it didn't for me. A good example of why technical questions should be sent to freebsd-questions, instead of to newbies. Don't spread rumours that FreeBSD must be installed to the second primary partition of the first harddrive. This is not true. Right now I'm writing this from a FreeBSD booting from /dev/ad1s1 (first partition of second IDE drive). At home my FreeBSD boots from /dev/ ad4s1 (first partition of first SATA drive). I have a -CURRENT system on the same machine at /dev/ad4s3 (third partition of first SATA drive). My older system booted from /dev/ad1s1 and /dev/ad0s4. David