From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 17 04:52:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA24456 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 17 Aug 1997 04:52:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id EAA24451 for ; Sun, 17 Aug 1997 04:52:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id NAA15269; Sun, 17 Aug 1997 13:51:24 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id NAA01337; Sun, 17 Aug 1997 13:47:10 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970817134710.MA43606@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sun, 17 Aug 1997 13:47:10 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: ejohnst@green.mail.postal.net (Eric M. Johnston) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems Booting HD References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from Eric M. Johnston on Aug 10, 1997 23:11:07 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk (redirected to -questions) As Eric M. Johnston wrote: > 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). You should have found. This F? thing is a good indication that your disk geometry didn't match between what the BIOS is using, and what the FreeBSD installation has been using. You gotta reinstall, and use the proper values (if necessary, using the `G)' option in the partition editor). Alternatively, you could hack the fdisk table, but unless you really know what you're doing, i wouldn't recommend this. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)