Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 10:13:46 +0200 (CEST) From: Thomas Schuerger <schuerge@wurzelausix.CS.Uni-SB.DE> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD won't boot Message-ID: <199904130813.KAA21994@wurzelausix.cs.uni-sb.de>
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Hi! I have Win95 and FreeBSD 4.0-Current on my system. Today I had to reinstall Win95, which overwrites the master boot record. After that I used fdisk to switch to FreeBSD and used /stand/sysinstall to install the FreeBSD selector boot record (I set the FreeBSD and the Win95 partition to bootable first). Now the boot selector will be displayed, but I cannot run FreeBSD from it anymore. It will just show the boot prompt in the boot loader and won't accept to boot from my SCSI drive, where the FreeBSD and Win95 partition are located (using "0:da(0,a)kernel", which should work). The boot loader just says "Invalid format!". Then I used the Fixit-Floppy and tried to boot FreeBSD from my harddrive, again using "0:da(0,a)kernel", which works perfectly. Am I missing something? Why doesn't the harddrive-installed bootloader accept my kernel, whereas the floppy bootloader does? Thanks for your help! Ciao, Thomas. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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