From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 20 19: 9:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F16037B401 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 19:09:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B711043E3B for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 19:09:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.gr (patr530-b172.otenet.gr [212.205.244.180]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gAL392Ix008873; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 05:09:03 +0200 (EET) Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gAL390qM008340; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 05:09:01 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gAL38xgx008339; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 05:08:59 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 05:08:56 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Andrew Y Ng Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot stuck at F1 after swapping drives Message-ID: <20021121030856.GB8009@gothmog.gr> References: <20021121025606.GA8009@gothmog.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2002-11-20 22:01, Andrew Y Ng 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