Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2004 16:15:29 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Clint Olsen <clint@0lsen.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installed 5.2RC from CDROM, fails to boot in manager Message-ID: <20040102001529.3B0AB5D04@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Clint Olsen <clint@0lsen.net> of "Thu, 01 Jan 2004 12:55:11 PST." <20040101205511.GM42542@0lsen.net>
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> Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2004 12:55:11 -0800 > From: Clint Olsen <clint@0lsen.net> > Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org > > On Jan 01, Ryan Sommers wrote: > > > > When you hit a key does anything show up on the next line after the > > bootmanagers prompt, like a - / \ | character? If not then your MBR might > > have been corrupted. Is it a constant tone or is it just an error beep > > when you hit a key? I don't remember if boot0 makes a beep on a bad key > > or not. > > No, it doesn't show any sort of booting character. It beeps no matter what > key I hit. It just hangs there. This is a 40G Maxtor drive I swiped out > of my Dell machine. > > I had some fun running fdisk on this thing. Fdisk could never get the > geometry right for this disk - but it did appear to be able to detect the > size correctly. It kept trying to create 3 partitions, instead of the > usual 2 (the 0-63 partition 'hole' + the freebsd partition). > > At any rate, I got the screen to appear largely like it does on the fdisk > menu in the FreeBSD Handbook (incorrectly guessing the disk size but at > least getting the number of partitions right). > > > Is FreeBSD the only operating system you have on the system? You might > > try chosing not to use a boot manager if it is the only OS. > > Yes, it's the only system. I have the boot manager on my 4.7 machine, so I > didn't see any harm in using it again. I actually want to install a second > disk with Windows on it so I can refer to it for emergency purposes. Try re-writing the MBR. Use the fixit disk (ISO-2) to bring up th live system. Then enter the command: boot0cfg -o packet -B ad0 There are other options you might want to use, but this should work. (Read the man page.) -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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