Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 11:33:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Bryce Newall <data@dreamhaven.net> To: FreeBSD Questions List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Boot troubles Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.10.9907111129160.30016-100000@ds9.dreamhaven.net>
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Hello all, I'm running into an extremely frustrating FreeBSD boot problem. I just transferred the contents of a 2.1 gig SCSI drive over to a 4.3. I've done this sort of thing many times before, with no problem. I copied all of the directories, and then used fdisk (through sysinstall) to load the boot manager onto the new drive. All that went fine. However, the machine will not boot from the new drive. I get the following menu at startup: F1 DOS F2 FreeBSD F5 Drive 1 If I hit F1, I can boot into DOS with no problem. If I hit F2, though, the machine just "beeeeeeeep"'s at me. I had seen some similar messages in the mailing list archives, one of which mentioned possible geometry problems. However, I didn't think that was a problem with SCSI, and in addition, I wouldn't know where to begin looking for such a problem. Thinking maybe I could just boot up off of the installation disks, I downloaded kern.flp and mfsroot.flp and created disks. However, even that wouldn't work -- The kernel boot disk got as far as loading the boot loader, detecting the keyboard, and then the little spinner would just stop, and nothing else would happen. I let it sit there a good 10 minutes... nothing. So in other words, I can't use my new drive now, *and* I can't even boot off the install disks to try to fix it. Needless to say, I'm frustrated, and under a time constraint as I have to be out of this place and on a plane in a few hours. Anyone have any suggestions for me? I'd be most appreciative. Thanks! ********************************************************************** * Bryce Newall * Email: data@dreamhaven.net * * WWW: http://www.dreamhaven.net/~data * ICQ: 32620929 * * "Insanity takes its toll. Please have exact change." * ********************************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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