From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 28 14:48:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from corinth.bossig.com (corinth.bossig.com [208.26.239.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A20837C05A for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 14:48:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (unverified [208.26.241.86]) by corinth.bossig.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 3.4.7) with ESMTP id ; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 14:58:26 -0800 Message-ID: <38E136EA.85287D0A@3-cities.com> Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 14:49:14 -0800 From: Kent Stewart Organization: Columbia Basin Virtual Community Project X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Andrew J. Gregorowicz" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Trouble booting after install on ATA66 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Andrew J. Gregorowicz" wrote: > > Hello, > I am currently trying to install FreeBSD 4.0 on my homebrew machine > which has an ABit BE6 motherboard and my only harddrive is a Quantum > Fireball Plus-KA 13G ATA/66. > I boot from CD and partition my drive (FreeBSD will co-exist with > WIn98.) I then let the BootMgr take everything over. I proceed with the > rest of the install (install basic software, configure X, etc...) I then > conclude the install and reboot. It sounds like you have your / partition in the wrong place. It can't be above cylinder 1023, which works out to be ~8.4GB. I have a 2GB fat and then a 13GB Freebsd slice. My / partition is the first in the FreeBSD slice. It boots just fine. Kent > When I reboot, I get the following menu: > > -------- > > F1: DOS > F3: FreeBSD > Default: F1 > > -------- > > When I try to press F3 my system will simply produce a beep from the pc > speaker. Yet if I press F1 the system will immediatly boot into Windows. > Anyone have any clues on what I am doing wrong, or what I could do to > get into FreeBSD. > > Thanks, > > Andy > gregoroa@enc.edu > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message