Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 14:16:54 +0200 From: "Patrick O'Reilly" <patrick@mip.co.za> To: "FreeBSD Question List" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Boot Won't !!! Message-ID: <NDBBIMKICMDGDMNOOCAIAEHEDLAA.patrick@mip.co.za> In-Reply-To: <NDBBIMKICMDGDMNOOCAIEEHBDLAA.patrick@mip.co.za>
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Well - go figure!!! Here's the problem: (and it just might have something to do with disk geometry as was suggested earlier?) I had used the SCSI controller's utility to do a low-level format of the disk before I ever tried installing the OS. But that would not let BSD boot. Now, I put in a new 'virgin' disk and installed from CD and it's all OK. Quite why the SCSI controller's format messes with the boot-ability of the disk is beyond me - perhaps someone smart out there might care to explain it to us? Patrick. > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Patrick > O'Reilly > Sent: 18 October 2001 12:39 > To: FreeBSD Question List > Subject: Boot Won't !!! > > > OK - I'm stumped - and probably doing something real dumb... > > I've installed 4.3 from the CD1 onto an Intel Tupelo MB, dual processor, > with 2 18G Cheetah SCSI disks under AIC 7899 onboard chipset. Nothing > fancy - just plain standard installation. (512M swap slice and > 17.5G / slice > on Disk 0, didn't do Disk 1 yet) > > Now she won't boot! I tried with the standard MBR - stops saying "missing > operating system". I tried with FreeBSD Boot manager - I get: > ------------------------------- > F1 FreeBSD > F5 Drive 1 > > Default: F1 _ > > ------------------------------- > but its dead - pressing F1 or Enter (or anything else) yields NO RESPONSE. > > Someone - PLEASE klobber me with the clue stick :) > > Patrick. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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