Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 00:06:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Eric M. Johnston" <ejohnst@green.mail.postal.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems Booting HD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970814000607.2059S-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970810175250.6807A-100000@green.mail.postal.net>
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On Sun, 10 Aug 1997, Eric M. Johnston wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I'm having some trouble booting a newly installed FreeBSD partition. At
> the boot manager prompt ("Default: ...") I've got the options of F1, dos,
> and F2, BSD. My obligatory DOS partion boots fine, yet the BSD one
> refuses to boot: pressing F2 just causes it to repeat the choices and
> "Default: F?" prompt.
These problems are usually caused by geometry disagreements between the
BIOS and the rest of the world. There isn't much you can do without
starting over from scratch. I'd suggest trying OS-BS, which should be
near where you found the booteasy installer (bootinst).
Doug White | University of Oregon
Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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