Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 12:25:40 -0400 From: Steven Faulconer <sfaulconer@mindspring.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Keyboard/Boot problem after clean 4.3 install (Solved) Message-ID: <3AE99D84.A5722819@mindspring.com>
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I'd like to thank Ian Dowse and Sang-Kil (Sam) Suh for their excellent ideas on my problem. Sadly, the ideas were not the solutions for my problems, but they did start me thinking. The problem was exactly as Mr. Dowse put it, that the bootloader couldn't read the boot sector on the hard drive. The problem though, is that this drive is a SCSI drive, and there is nowhere I could find to get the actual drive geometry to feed into FreeBSD, since the geometry for the drive is given to the system from the SCSI Bios on the card (At least, that is my understanding of it). So, on to the solution.. I was looking at the Slice-Creation screen of the installer, and decided to read the help section (rtfm), and noticed a hidden feature 'F' that makes the slice the entire drive, instead of leaving the pad at the beginning and end for future OSes and boot loaded. Since this system is dedicated to FreeBSD, and I have no intention of running any other OS, I decided to give this a shot. And it worked! Now, to reinstall and actually get all the packages/ports that I need. Thanks again to Ian Dowse and Sang-Kil (Sam) Suh for their assistance in making me actually pull my head out of my butt and read the instructions! Steven Faulconer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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