From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 5 8:13:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (bgm-24-24-79-198.stny.rr.com [24.24.79.198]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0356D37B41D for ; Fri, 5 Apr 2002 08:13:52 -0800 (PST) Received: by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix, from userid 12347) id 5991FEABB42; Fri, 5 Apr 2002 11:15:13 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 570FB6A86AB for ; Fri, 5 Apr 2002 11:15:13 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 11:15:13 -0500 (EST) From: John Bleichert X-X-Sender: syborg@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org Reply-To: John Bleichert To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problem with installation In-Reply-To: <200204051557.JAA26862@tam9.mech.nwu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Jeong Wahn Yoo wrote: > Hi there > > I'm a newbie in the freebsd world. I've tried to install the freebsd 4.5 on a > sony laptop fx370. > After kernel configuration, I find that the system hangs after the message: > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/md0c > I've used a CD from iso image i downloaded and tried to run freebsd and windows > XP. > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > Looks like you may have forgotten to set your freebsd partition as bootable during install? Can you boot your other opsys? I don't use the freebsd bootloader so I'm kinda guessing. You may need to see the bootloader section of the Handbook, boot off your CD and re-set your MBR: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot-blocks.html Or very carefully run fdisk from the booted CD and make sure your BSD partition is bootable. Be careful, fdisk is a highly efficient way to erase your system :-) Good luck - JB |-John Bleichert----syborg@stny.rr.com----------------| |-------------------http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg--| To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message