From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Dec 11 13:25:10 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 11 13:25:07 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from nordier.com (c3-dbn-108.dial-up.net [196.33.200.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AED2937B400 for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 13:25:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by nordier.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eBBLPm600592; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 23:25:48 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from rnordier) From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <200012112125.eBBLPm600592@nordier.com> Subject: Re: Booting 4.2 To: danh@gelatinous.com (Dan Holliman), cliff@raggedclown.net (Cliff Sarginson) Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 23:25:47 +0200 (SAST) Cc: stable@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <20001211115228.A74082@gelatinous.com> from "Dan Holliman" at Dec 11, 2000 11:52:28 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dan Holliman wrote: > On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 08:15:18AM +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > I have installed 4.2 from CD. > > Try as I might I could not install it as bootable. > > I tried various permutations of installation. > > I dedicated the whole hard disk of the PC I was trying > > it on to BSD. > > But I got zip when I booted. > > So I installed a minimal linux installation, > > then BSD and using Lilo, lo and behold it booted ! > > I am no help but I had the exact same problem. > I spent hours agonizing over boot blocks and experimenting > with grub to try to get freebsd 4.2 to boot from the disk > drive of a PC (I blamed my weird HP Vectra BIOS at the time), > then I installed Linux just so I could use LILO, and > I was able to boot into freebsd finally. I'd be happy to work with anyone who is having problems with the i386 bootstraps. You'll both have to go into more detail, though, before this kind of report is actually useful. (All I can gather, for now, is that nothing you tried worked, except LILO....) -- Robert Nordier rnordier@nordier.com rnordier@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message