From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 5 20:18:54 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 43A9F37B401 for ; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 20:18:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vcnet.com (mail.vcnet.com [209.239.239.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A244643E4A for ; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 20:18:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from demian@mok.com) Received: (qmail 36004 invoked from network); 6 Sep 2002 03:18:48 -0000 Received: from 1-0-401.adsl.vcnet.com (HELO mok.com) (209.239.236.203) by mail.vcnet.com with SMTP; 6 Sep 2002 03:18:48 -0000 Message-ID: <3D7820BF.3060102@mok.com> Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2002 20:27:59 -0700 From: Demian L'Ecuyer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sam Bailey Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cannot boot to HDD after install References: <001201c25425$def27530$7c02380a@sambailey> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Sam Bailey wrote: > Well, > > I had a problem at first with a SCSI CD-ROM, so I ripped out the CD-Rom and > put in an IDE one. I can now boot from the CD-Rom, but as I complete the > sysinstall, I remove the CD-Rom and reboot, but I get a BOOT DEVICE NOT > FOUND error. I am installing on a 20 GB drive, and I am using the whole > drive for FreeBSD. I am installing 4.6.2, and when I go through fdisk, I do > set the freebsd slice as active. The disk geometry matches that found by > the BIOS. There are two small unused portions, at the beginning and at the > end of the drive, that I am assuming are artifacts of the geometry. I am > also using the automatic settings in the disk label, in order to create the > mount points. Root is only 125 MB, so there should be > no problems with the 1024 cylinder issue. I am also not using a Boot > Manager, as I will only have FreeBSD on the system. > > I am installing on an ASUS P6NP5 Pentium Pro motherboard, with the last bios > update provided by ASUS. Granted the board is old, but the drive is a > fairly new Western Digital 20 GB drive. The BIOS on the board finds the > drive in the HDD detection utility and I have selected "Normal" as opposed > to "LBA" as the geometry type. > > Any suggestions? > > Sam > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > Hiya Sam, Have you checked your IDE cables recently? When you start your machine are any of the drive lights red? ( Floopy, CDROM, hard disk ) .. perhaps your bus is confused. Also, do you have master/slave set correctly on your hard-drive CDROM ... Thanatos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message