Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 23:11:07 -0500 (CDT) From: "Eric M. Johnston" <ejohnst@green.mail.postal.net> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Problems Booting HD Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970810231032.8068A-100000@green.mail.postal.net>
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Greetings,
I'm having some trouble booting a newly installed FreeBSD partition. At
the boot manager prompt ("Default: ...") I've got the options of F1, dos,
and F2, BSD. My obligatory DOS partion boots fine, yet the BSD one
refuses to boot: pressing F2 just causes it to repeat the choices and
"Default: F?" prompt.
Now, I searched the mailing list archvies, and found many messages with a
similar question, but no real answers (or, at least, no answers that apply
and work in my case).
So, the details:
Did Novice Install from FreeBSD 2.2.2 CD-ROM onto an IDE HD
IDE HD is ~540MB, set as the primary (and only) IDE HD
HD cylinders: 1046, heads: 16, sectors: 63 - I've double checked this
with the installation program - it appears to get it right
I also have an Adaptec 2940U installed (CD drive is SCSI), but same
problem when I remove it
Intel Pentium Pro MB (AMI BIOS?)
Boots fine from floppy using "wd(o,a)/kernel"
Installation CD-ROM boots very nicely on its own (surprised me the
first time)
DOS partion (first 25MB of HD) boots fine
I did a "fdisk /mbr" from DOS and reinstalled FreeBSD and the boot
manager as suggested in the mailing list archives - hasn't helped
Thanks for your help - I'm ready to get this computer going!
Eric
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