Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 17:18:32 +0100 From: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie> To: Steven Faulconer <sfaulconer@mindspring.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, iedowse@maths.tcd.ie Subject: Re: Keyboard/Boot problem after clean 4.3 install Message-ID: <200104271718.aa13324@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 27 Apr 2001 11:02:15 EDT." <3AE989F7.B71542E@mindspring.com>
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In message <3AE989F7.B71542E@mindspring.com>, Steven Faulconer writes: >Default : F1 > >I then hit F1, and the system beeps. Infact, any keystroke other than >ctrl-alt-delete just causes a beep in the system. I've reinstalled That sounds like the boot menu failed to read the first sector of the FreeBSD partition. This would often indicate a mismatch between the BIOS's idea of the disk geometry and FreeBSD's information. See if there are any BIOS options relating to the disk geometry, e.g. "LBA", "Large" etc. You could also try writing down the number of cylinders, heads and tracks reported by the BIOS, and specifying these manually on the FreeBSD installer's disk partition page. Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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