Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 14:58:28 -0600 From: Jeremy Vandenhouten <jeremy.vandenhouten@marquette.edu> To: killbot@pacbell.net, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: non-booting bsd newbie Message-ID: <28639c285c2f.285c2f28639c@marquette.edu>
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Ahhh, I think I know where you are at now... Can I take a guess and say that the "booteasy" manager wasn't installed when you first setup the system? And now you want to get it installed so that you can boot off the hard drive. Anyone on the list have an idea how to set up booteasy after the system has already been setup? ----- Original Message ----- From: killbot@pacbell.net Date: Monday, November 6, 2000 12:00 pm Subject: Re: non-booting bsd newbie > jeremy- > thanks for the suggestion, but believe my hardware to be good. all > hardware works just fine under linux. all very standard stuff. > the hard > drive i'm currently using was known good. in addition, i'm > booting off a > floppy, which leads me to believe the floppy is aok. just, tested > withanother hard drive, linux boots fine. > i'm a linux dude so the boot loader where the unfamilarity > comes into > play. under linux, i would verify my lilo.conf info and run lilo > to setup > the boot sector. well anyway, i'm looking the /boot directory and > see some > interesting stuff that looks related to booting. the bsd manual > sort of > glosses over the subject of booting, or maybe that was me that was > a little > glossy. i'm into reading/doing what ever it takes, i want my bsd > box. i > sort of hate to bag the install as i have x windows and everything > going.the machine is alive and doing fine, but i dare not reboot. > arg...i need a bsd user group. thanks for your help jeremy. > -brent > > > > iJeremy Vandenhouten wrote: > > > I had this problem when installing 3.5.1 on an older 486, it usually > > indicates that the floppy cable has been attached backwards, or that > > there is a physical defect with the drive. As a workaround, have you > > tried disabling the floppy altogether in the bios? This will > allow you > > to also ascertain whether the floppy has undergone hardware failure. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: killbot@pacbell.net > > Date: Saturday, November 4, 2000 2:40 pm > > Subject: non-booting bsd newbie > > > > > hello everybody- > > > i've just install bsd for the first time. i installed via > ftp and > > > everything went great. well, that is up until it was time to > > > boot off > > > the disk. the floppy disk llight comes on and stays on as if it's > > > looking for something. anyway, there must be a way to rewrite > the mbr > > > and/or verify the boot loader. i manually mounted each of the > > > filesystems and it's all good. > > > > > > here's a list of my partitions > > > device mount pt. > > > ad0s1a / > > > ad0s1b swap > > > ad0s2e /home > > > ad0s2f /usr > > > > > > thanks > > > -brent a. thorne > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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