From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 14 14:51:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA09021 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 14:51:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA08850 for ; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 14:50:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA27266; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 14:49:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 14:49:58 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Yingjun He cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cannot boot In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19980114101103.00956240@newton.ccs.tuns.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Yingjun He wrote: > I just installed FreeBSD2.25 using ftp. After I installed the system > including X windows I cannot boot from drive C (which is the only > hard dis I have). It prompt me with the error message > " Drive not ready > Insert System Disk and reboot" > I don't understand if drive not ready how can I got everything copied > to the drive? Maybe the hard disk was not set to bootable? I never have > this kind of problem before. I tried several times and I got the same > error messages. Thank you for your help! 1. Insert a DOS boot floppy and boot it. 2. Run FDISK. 3. Set the active partition to one on your first disk. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major