From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 14 12:16:22 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4A4A16A400 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 12:16:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nevtide@yahoo.com) Received: from web60912.mail.yahoo.com (web60912.mail.yahoo.com [209.73.179.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 613C143D46 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 12:16:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nevtide@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 40289 invoked by uid 60001); 14 Mar 2006 12:16:21 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=TtOEGstyUjGj//l+8zj6oT4DdWDihrpu2TNs4wJrWkwazEh8zzHOT7Niq4tFlB8WRR9lh3sCGVhE0PgSApqd+ZpM45CF/E3KKkgBzN1IS/CFUZKnTkMMbCxrOHyRC36tA7sq7A7FN1BuKNTtnvwR9YZ7TR42Y5AXGM96ndm4eC0= ; Message-ID: <20060314121621.40287.qmail@web60912.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [68.165.78.47] by web60912.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 04:16:21 PST Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 04:16:21 -0800 (PST) From: NevTide To: Vulpes Velox In-Reply-To: <20060313204353.041b958f@vixen42.vulpes> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installs fine, but won't boot. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 12:16:22 -0000 --- Vulpes Velox wrote: > On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 06:25:32 -0800 (PST) > NevTide wrote: > > > I've been trying to get FreeBSD to run on my > Toshiba > > Satellite (m45 359). I tried a couple of times > with > > version 6.0 and the install went fine, but the > > computer doesn't seem to recognize the drive as > being > > bootable. (So I experimented with a couple > different > > options: standard boot manager, bsd boot manager, > > setting the partition (yes, it's a primary) to > > bootable, even erasing the whole drive and > allocating > > it to FreeBSD. Regardless of what I've tried, the > boot > > sequence doesn't see a hardrive and skips it. > > > > Also tried 5.4, but that freezes on booting the > > install cd (probably just need to disable acpi) > but I > > really don't want 5.4 anyways. > > > > Currently I'm writing this from ubuntu dapper (as > a > > test) - install went smooth and grub loaded with > no > > problem but I'd really prefer to get back to bsd. > > > > Thanks for anyway help or feedback. > > This is probally not the case, but when you got it > would it boot > windows properly and if not will it boot properly if > you hit > ctl+alt+del? > > I've seen hard drives get skipped over before > because of some what > slow spin up times. > Vulpes - Thanks for the reply. Yes, windows xp boots very well - I have actually since removed ubuntu (good distro, but I don't really like it and have temporarily gone back to winxp until I can get freebsd working.) So linux and winxp have both been installed and removed a couple times with no problems. Freebsd is the only one not wanting to play on this computer :-( For some strange reason, the drive isn't noticed when freebsd is on it (even when the boot manager is installed, the boot manager doesn't even load??) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com