From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Wed Sep  1 03:06:32 2004
Return-Path: <owner-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 4B6DF16A4CE
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Wed,  1 Sep 2004 03:06:32 +0000 (GMT)
Received: from mproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.203])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95E7343D31
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Wed,  1 Sep 2004 03:06:29 +0000 (GMT)
	(envelope-from subhro.kar@gmail.com)
Received: by mproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id v30so37470rnb
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Tue, 31 Aug 2004 20:06:27 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by 10.38.206.28 with SMTP id d28mr311876rng;
        Tue, 31 Aug 2004 20:06:27 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by 10.38.206.18 with HTTP; Tue, 31 Aug 2004 20:06:27 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <b2807d040408312006485b5665@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 08:36:27 +0530
From: Subhro <subhro.kar@gmail.com>
To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.60.0409010244130.3754@sdf.lonestar.org>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
References: <Pine.NEB.4.60.0409010244130.3754@sdf.lonestar.org>
cc: Phil Thomson <philthom@freeshell.org>
Subject: Re: Can't boot
X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1
Precedence: list
Reply-To: Subhro <subhro.kar@gmail.com>
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>,
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>,
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 03:06:32 -0000

I assume that you are installing *only* FreeBSD on the Pentium and not
multibooting it. Did you select to install the standard MBR or did u
select to leave he MBR untouched? What happens when you try to boot
the system fromthe hadr drive?

Regard
S.

On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 02:49:51 +0000 (UTC), Phil Thomson
<philthom@freeshell.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Just installed FreeBSD on a Pentium 150 I found in the garbage (!), and it
> seems the installation went fine, but I cannot boot. I had to use the boot
> floppies to start the installation, so I used those to boot from to try
> and figure out how to configure the boot options in sysinstall, but I had
> no luck. I tried using the fixit floppy, but I don't understand how to
> find the hard drive or what I would do when I got there (I'm kind of a
> newbie to FreeBSD). The "holographic shell" didnt work (no shell came up
> at all). I can't currently rescue from a CD as I did a network install
> from floppies. What is the next step?
> 
> P
> 
> "Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."
> Popular Mechanics, 1949
> 
> =========
> Phil Thomson
> home: http://www.sfu.ca/~pthomson
> label: http://centibel.org/
> group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/databenders/
> =========
> 
> SDF Public Access UNIX System
> http://www.freeshell.org/
> Geekier than you since 1987.
> _______________________________________________
> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
> 


-- 
Subhro Sankha Kar
School of Information Technology
Block AQ-13/1 Sector V
ZIP 700091
India