Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 05:08:56 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Andrew Y Ng <ayn@AndrewNg.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot stuck at F1 after swapping drives Message-ID: <20021121030856.GB8009@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0211202159060.17320-100000@andromeda.68k.org> References: <20021121025606.GA8009@gothmog.gr> <Pine.LNX.4.44.0211202159060.17320-100000@andromeda.68k.org>
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On 2002-11-20 22:01, Andrew Y Ng <ayn@AndrewNg.com> wrote: > On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > Check what BIOS thinks about the drive. If you haven't set the > > disk type to "AUTO" and used the disk detection tools of BIOS when > > you swapped disks and used the Windows disk, you'll have to rerun > > the BIOS disk detection tool after changing the disks again. > > it's set to AUTO. I was able to kindda boot to the harddrive with a > CDROM, but I then tried to reboot and got stuck in the Default: F1 > prompt again. =( What happens if you do press F1? Just a beep? The next thing you can try is to boot off a FreeBSD CD-ROM and interrupt the loader as it starts to show the spinning character. Instead of letting it boot from 0:fd(0,a)/kernel which is IIRC the default kernel that the boot CD-ROM starts, press backspace to delete 0:fd(0,a)/kernel and write: 0:ad(0,a)/kernel That should boot from the disk. > I was thinking maybe I didn't shutdown my FreeBSD correctly, I did a > reboot and just turned it off after the system restarted. I did that > coz if i do shutdown the PC Card doesn't turn off when i hit the > power switch. If the MBR of the disk is messed up (I can't guess why that would happen, but whatever) you can always write a new boot0 block to the disk with boot0cfg(8): # boot0cfg -B -v /dev/ad0 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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