Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 20:03:08 +0100 From: Ismat Halabi <ismat.halabi@ericsson.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Cannot boot after completed installation! Message-ID: <3AB2636B.65922BCE@ericsson.com>
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--------------90903AEA381D358DF0F747D6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit HI, I have successfully installed FreeBSD 4.2 from CDROM on my PC hard disk. Yet I cannot boot from hard disk although it has less than 1024 cylinders! What is the problem? When I tried to follow the first suggestion in 1.9 in the FAQ (http://www.freebsd.org/docs/en/books/faq/install.html), it did not work either. I got the message "Cannot write to file bootsav.bin," although the installation table says bsd is bootable and has a boot partition. <1.9. Windows 95/98 killed my boot manager! How do I get it <back? <You can reinstall the boot manager FreeBSD comes with in <one of three ways: < Running DOS, go into the tools/ directory of your FreeBSD <distribution and look for bootinst.exe. < You run it like so: < ...\TOOLS> bootinst.exe boot.bin < and the boot manager will be reinstalled. Trying with the second option (se below) did not help either. -- > Boot the FreeBSD boot floppy again and go to the Custom installation menu item. Choose > Partition. Select the drive which used to contain your boot manager (likely the first one) and when > you come to the partition editor for it, as the very first thing (e.g. do not make any changes) select > (W)rite. This will ask for confirmation, say yes, and when you get the Boot Manager selection > prompt, be sure to select Boot Manager. This will re-write the boot manager to disk. Now quit out of > > the installation menu and reboot off the hard disk as normal. > Regards, Ismat Ismat Halabi mailto:ismat.halabi@ericsson.com IP-BSS/RNS System Management & Design Ericsson Radio Systems http://www.ericsson.com Gullfossgatan 4 164 80 Stockholm Sweden Ph +46-8-585 33878 Fax +46-8-75 70354 Mobile +46-70-631 02 99 --------------90903AEA381D358DF0F747D6 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> HI, <p>I have successfully installed FreeBSD 4.2 from CDROM on my PC hard disk. Yet I cannot boot from hard disk although it has less than 1024 cylinders! What is the problem? <p>When I tried to follow the first suggestion in 1.9 in the FAQ (<A HREF="http://www.freebsd.org/docs/en/books/faq/install.html">http://www.freebsd.org/docs/en/books/faq/install.html</A>), it did not work either. I got the message "Cannot write to file bootsav.bin," although the installation table says bsd is bootable and has a boot partition. <br> <p><1.9. Windows 95/98 killed my boot manager! How do I get it <back? <p><You can reinstall the boot manager FreeBSD comes with in <one of three ways: <p>< Running DOS, go into the tools/ directory of your FreeBSD <distribution and look for bootinst.exe. <br> < You run it like so: <p>< ...\TOOLS> bootinst.exe boot.bin <p>< and the boot manager will be reinstalled. <pre>Trying with the second option (se below) did not help either.</pre> <pre>--</pre> <blockquote TYPE=CITE> <pre>Boot the FreeBSD boot floppy again and go to the Custom installation menu item. Choose Partition. Select the drive which used to contain your boot manager (likely the first one) and when you come to the partition editor for it, as the very first thing (e.g. do not make any changes) select (W)rite. This will ask for confirmation, say yes, and when you get the Boot Manager selection prompt, be sure to select Boot Manager. This will re-write the boot manager to disk. Now quit out of </pre> </blockquote> <blockquote TYPE=CITE> <pre> the installation menu and reboot off the hard disk as normal.</pre> </blockquote> <p>Regards, <br>Ismat <p>Ismat Halabi <A HREF="mailto:ismat.halabi@ericsson.com">mailto:ismat.halabi@ericsson.com</A> IP-BSS/RNS System Management & Design Ericsson Radio Systems <A HREF="http://www.ericsson.com">http://www.ericsson.com</A>; Gullfossgatan 4 164 80 Stockholm Sweden Ph +46-8-585 33878 Fax +46-8-75 70354 Mobile +46-70-631 02 99</html> --------------90903AEA381D358DF0F747D6-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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