Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 18:25:03 -0400 From: cjm88@home.com To: Doug Russell <drussell@saturn-tech.com> Cc: "Hartmann, O." <ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE Install problems, BOOT FAILURE after freshinstallation Message-ID: <3AFDB83F.3DAFC615@home.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105122133180.17454-100000@beastie.saturn-tech.com>
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Interesting... I had the problem with both 4.2 and 4.3... I am absolutely certain that I set the partition to 'Active' during the install process and that I selected the 'Normal MBR' option when prompted for what to do. I tested with a drive that had not been 'dangerously dedicated' and everything worked fine... so... maybe the problem arises (or the bug is aggrevated) when doing an install on a device that had been previously 'dangerously dedicated'.... the other symptom that I noticed is that when I tried to install again after a failed install... the partition info was there but the partition that I had selected to be active was no longer marked active. Thanks for your thoughts C Doug Russell wrote: > On Sat, 12 May 2001 cjm88@home.com wrote: > > > I had the exact same problem with similar hardware. My problem arose it, seemed, because the drive I was using had been previously > > dangerously dedicated. After multiple failed installs I decided to see if I could create a DOS partition and format it with the /S option. > > That worked so I tried installing FreeBSD again and everything worked fine from that point on. > > You probably neglected to write a standard boot manager to the disk. This > can be done in systinstall, but has historically not always worked > correctly. (You select Standard boot manager, but it installs None...) > You can also always boot with a DOS diskette and use 'fdisk /mbr' to write > a standard bot manager to the disk, or copy the first sector from a good > disk to the offending one using something like (bs=512 should be default): > > 'dd if=/dev/xxx of=/dev/xxx bs=512 count=1' > > I've had to do this more than once before. Perhaps this was your problem. > > Later...... <Doug> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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