Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 13:01:03 -0800 From: Johnson David <DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> To: mike bueide <mbueide@charter.net>, freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot problem Message-ID: <200311121301.03620.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> In-Reply-To: <20031112193814.GA14546@charter.net> References: <BAY1-F325c4GnO9lTXe00003be3@hotmail.com> <3FB27B5F.10105@bouncebk.com> <20031112193814.GA14546@charter.net>
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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
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