Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 16:20:54 +0200 From: "Timo Geusch" <Timo_Geusch@award.de> To: <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Rachel Willmer" <rachel@intertrader.com> Subject: Re: trouble getting machine to boot Message-ID: <199707071426.HAA15048@hub.freebsd.org>
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Rachel, this may be a dumb question, but 1. Do you have other OSs installed that may require a boot manager installation ? 2. Did you set the FreeBSD partition to bootable. Timo Geusch Software engineer AWARD Software International, Inc. (Europe) ---- From: Rachel Willmer <rachel@intertrader.com> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Monday, July 07, 1997 3:48 PM Subject: trouble getting machine to boot >I've just installed freebsd V2.2 on a 486. Installation has gone fine apart >from one thing, it won't boot automatically on power-up. > >If I use the Freebsd boot disk to manually boot 0:wd(0,a)/kernel, it works >fine. > >Otherwise, it just sits there like a dead thing. > >Any pointers most gratefully received... > >Thanks >Rachel > >
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