From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 26 12:14:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA26109 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 26 Apr 1996 12:14:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from garlic.com (root@garlic.com [165.227.35.130]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA26104 for ; Fri, 26 Apr 1996 12:14:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tinker.safemail.com by garlic.com (8.7.5/4.03) id TAA60916; Fri, 26 Apr 1996 19:14:47 GMT Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 19:14:47 GMT Message-Id: <199604261914.TAA60916@garlic.com> From: "William O. Yates" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD-2.1 boot failure after install = ("F1 . . . BSD" looping) X-Mailer: Pronto E-Mail [version 2.01] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk REFERENCEING NOTE BELOW... I HAVE THE EXACT SAME PROBLEM. (ie: F1 . . . BSD) (Keeps looping with same prompt...) And I DID do the "A" (select all) option, and also answered "NO" for compatibility (ie: no bootmanager). When I boot off of the install diskette, and answer with "sd(0,a)/kernel", FreeBSD-2.1 boots and runs just fine... 486 VLB motherboard (NO on-board ports/devices) AMI BIOS (1995) Intel 80486DX2-66 16MB DRAM (4 - 4Mx9-70ns) 256KB Secondary Cache Adaptec 1542F SCSI / Floppy ISA Adapter (IRQ 11, ADD 330, DMA 5) Toshiba 2X 3401B SCSI CDROM Drive Seagate HAWK ST31200N 1.06GB SCSI Hard Disk Drive Teac Dual 1.44MB-3.5"/1.2MB-5.25" Floppy Diskette Drive 2 x SCSI Disk Drive Drawer 3COM 3C509 Coax Ethernet ISA Adapter (IRQ 10, ADD 300) SII Dual 16550 Serial Port ISA Adapter (IRQ 3,4) SVGA ISA Adapter (256KB)($29 REALTEK/QUADTEL generic clone) IBM 101 Keyboard clone Serial Mouse Seems that if there is some form of a Master-Boot-Record zap utility, this would be easy to fix... I do not NEED nor WANT any form of Boot-Manager, and I read the docs, and thought this would not install any... I installed EVERYTHING (over 600MB), so would really like NOT to have to reinstall. If that is the only fix, well I guess I will, but just doing another install without any answers about this could well be a waste of time... (I already formated and installed again with same results...) *************** REFERNECED NOTE FROM www.freebsd.org ********************** "http://www.freebsd.org/cgi-bin/mail-archive.pl?words=F1+and+bsd&source=fre ebsd-questions.src&source=freebsd-install.src&max=25&docnum=19" *************** REFERNECED NOTE FROM www.freebsd.org ********************** From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 20 22:57:27 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA17422 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 20 Dec 1995 22:57:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA17415 for ; Wed, 20 Dec 1995 22:57:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id RAA15034; Thu, 21 Dec 1995 17:30:12 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: Subject: Re: Boot problem To: magner@blueridge-ef.saic.com (Tony Magner) Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 17:30:12 +1030 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Tony Magner" at Dec 19, 95 02:25:58 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Tony Magner stands accused of saying: > F1 . . . BSD > > Default: F? > > Q: Did I do something wrong during install? What does this msg mean and I how do I rid myself of it? > > Hardware: AST Bravo 433, AHA 1540CF, Seagate SCSI 1.2GB, NE2000 clone You've almost certainly got the wrong geometry for the disk. If you're installing 2.1.0, select the 'all disk' option, and then answer 'no' to the 'compatability' question. You won't need the bootmanager, and geometry stops being an issue. > -- Tony Magner -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 041-122-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - William O. Yates __________ SafeMail, Inc. (Email/ISP) - - CEO/hacker at large / _ _ \ 3615 Jackson Oaks Court - - tinker@safemail.com | | | | | | Morgan Hill, CA U.S.A. 95037-6802 - - Tel: 408-778-5570 | |o| |o| | Fax: 408-778-5577 - --------------------||||----------||||---------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------