Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 21:33:10 -0500 (CDT) From: January <root@interaccess.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Getting FreeBSD to boot Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950915212752.326A-100000@victoria.winter.org>
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Someone suggested I mail this service with my question so here goes... :) I have a 486DX4/100, 16M RAM, Maxtor 1.2Gb E-IDE disk. I installed FreeBSD 2.0.5 on a block of the disk that straddles the 1024 cylinder boundary. The root (/) partition, however, is entirely below the boundary. Here's the problem. It won't boot. When I select it off of my boot menu, the FreeBSD BOOT: prompt comes up with its little message. If I let it time out, or press <enter> (or anything else for that matter), | appears in the corner of the screen. It does not spin; it just sits there. At that point, I have to coldboot my machine. I cannot get it to boot by pointing a bootdisk to the harddrive either. Please help me on this... I would very much like to be using FreeBSD 2.0.5. :) -dp <january@interaccess.com>
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