Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 14:49:14 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: "Andrew J. Gregorowicz" <gregoroa@enc.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Trouble booting after install on ATA66 Message-ID: <38E136EA.85287D0A@3-cities.com> References: <Pine.A32.3.91.1000328152605.15060A-100000@alpha.enc.edu>
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"Andrew J. Gregorowicz" wrote: > > Hello, > I am currently trying to install FreeBSD 4.0 on my homebrew machine > which has an ABit BE6 motherboard and my only harddrive is a Quantum > Fireball Plus-KA 13G ATA/66. > I boot from CD and partition my drive (FreeBSD will co-exist with > WIn98.) I then let the BootMgr take everything over. I proceed with the > rest of the install (install basic software, configure X, etc...) I then > conclude the install and reboot. It sounds like you have your / partition in the wrong place. It can't be above cylinder 1023, which works out to be ~8.4GB. I have a 2GB fat and then a 13GB Freebsd slice. My / partition is the first in the FreeBSD slice. It boots just fine. Kent > When I reboot, I get the following menu: > > -------- > > F1: DOS > F3: FreeBSD > Default: F1 > > -------- > > When I try to press F3 my system will simply produce a beep from the pc > speaker. Yet if I press F1 the system will immediatly boot into Windows. > Anyone have any clues on what I am doing wrong, or what I could do to > get into FreeBSD. > > Thanks, > > Andy > gregoroa@enc.edu > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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