Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 08:20:27 -0700 (PDT) From: John Johnson <ioann_j@yahoo.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD Won't Boot - Laptop Message-ID: <20000818152027.29186.qmail@web4102.mail.yahoo.com>
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I've installed FreeBSD 4.1 on my Dell Inspiron 3200, and the installation appears to have gone fine. On restarting the system, though, FreeBSD won't boot. I've gone through the install several times now, with the same result. I am using the entire hard disk (3.9 GB), and I've set the slice as bootable. My partitions are as follows: / 100M swap 228M (I've 128M RAM) /var 81M /usr 3500M After the install is complete, the system reboots and sits at a blinking underline cursor. Is this a problem with the MBR? The stange thing is, if I insert my Windows 2000 install CD and don't select to run from CD, FreeBSD will boot, so I'm assuming the problem is with the boot sector on my hard drive. Any thoughts? Thanks, John Johnson __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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