From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 14 00:08:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA00571 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 14 Aug 1997 00:08:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts6-line16.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA00560 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 1997 00:08:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA02236; Thu, 14 Aug 1997 00:06:59 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 00:06:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: "Eric M. Johnston" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems Booting HD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo