Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 14:52:04 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Bryce Newall <data@dreamhaven.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Boot troubles Message-ID: <37891204.A04A398A@3-cities.com> References: <Pine.NEB.4.10.9907111129160.30016-100000@ds9.dreamhaven.net>
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According to my rules, it isn't the new drive. You have something else that is broken otherwise the boot floppies would have worked. Kent Bryce Newall wrote: > > 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 -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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