Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 13:32:38 -0600 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: tonylabarbara@aol.com, norgaard@locolomo.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My Rebuild Problem Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20080223132508.024980a8@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <8CA4445F7AA44A9-730-2E26@webmail-md07.sysops.aol.com> References: <8CA4445F7AA44A9-730-2E26@webmail-md07.sysops.aol.com>
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At 09:14 AM 2/23/2008, tonylabarbara@aol.com wrote:
>Now I get this when I try and log on:
>
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>no /boot/loader
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>All I want to do is rebuild the silly FBSD! Again, I fell into this silly=
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>loop when I tried to rebuild:
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>-- Select Drive
>-- FDISK Partition Editor ("Q")
>-- Install Boot Manager
>
>and it just goes round, and round, and round. Can I just wipe the disk and=
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>start over? And why these strange problems? I=C2=B4m not connected to the=
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>Internet, so no possibility of virus. Never had this problem before.
>Help!
>Tony
Tony,
You don't mention what version you installing.
Be sure your BIOS is not set to not allow boot sector writes. Some BIOS=20
have this set to thwart boot sector viruses.
A few things you can try:
You can boot FreeDOS and run booteasy from the tools folder on the FreeBSD=
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install CD to install the boot-manager.
Boot the FreeBSD install CD and use the emergency shell to check the hard=
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drive for the correct creation of the folders and kernel.
If all else fails you can reformat and start over.
-Derek
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