From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 2 12:28:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA08055 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 2 Jan 1996 12:28:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from alpha.xerox.com (alpha.Xerox.COM [13.1.64.93]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA08050 for ; Tue, 2 Jan 1996 12:27:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from gemini.sdsp.mc.xerox.com ([13.231.132.20]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <14767(2)>; Tue, 2 Jan 1996 12:27:08 PST Received: from gnu.mc.xerox.com (gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com) by gemini.sdsp.mc.xerox.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA07329; Tue, 2 Jan 96 15:27:15 EST Received: by gnu.mc.xerox.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA11812; Tue, 2 Jan 96 15:27:10 EST Message-Id: <9601022027.AA11812@gnu.mc.xerox.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.4 10/10/95 To: Michael Smith Cc: magner@blueridge-ef.saic.com (Tony Magner), freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot problem In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 20 Dec 1995 23:00:12 PST." <199512210700.RAA15034@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 12:27:05 PST From: "Marty Leisner" 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? > > > After i installed freebsd, I got booteasy 14 off a simtel cd and tried to install it (it worked before). Following the instruction, the same thing happened...I have a Packard Bell P100 with a 1.2 gigabyte disk...(first 500 Mbyte dos, next 300 meg extended, and then a freebsd slice). I also can boot if I select the active partition in fdisk... Also, fbsdboot has problems (it starts booting, prints a message and then halts [not sure what the message is...] I tried winbsdboot, and it could read the partition (it tells me what I can boot from...) I have no problem booting from a boot disk selecting wd(0,a)/kernel* -- marty leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com Member of the League for Programming Freedom