Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 20:05:40 GMT
From: "William O. Yates" <tinker@safemail.com>
To: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: FreeBSD-2.1 boot failure after install = ("F1 . . . BSD" looping)
Message-ID: <199604292005.UAA17286@garlic.com>
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> >>>>> "William" == "William O Yates" <tinker@safemail.com> writes: > > William> I do not NEED nor WANT any form of Boot-Manager, and > William> I read the docs, and thought this would not install > William> any... > > If you've got a copy of MS-DOS 6.2 handy, you can zap the boot > manager by running > > FDISK.EXE /MBR > > So long as the FreeBSD slice is the only bootable slice on the > disk, your system should just boot right up ... I hope. > > -- > Sean Kelly > NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory kelly@fsl.noaa.gov > Boulder Colorado USA http://www-sdd.fsl.noaa.gov/~kelly/ > > Well, thanks for the suggestion, but this "zap" only eliminates the "F1 . . . BSD" prompt. The disk now just goes into limbo (I waited 5 minutes). Booting from the install floppy, and answering the "boot: " prompt with "sd(0,a)/kernel" still works... Any other ideas? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - 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 - --------------------||||----------||||---------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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