From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 4 11:50:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta5.snfc21.pbi.net (mta5.snfc21.pbi.net [206.13.28.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6209837B4CF for ; Sat, 4 Nov 2000 11:50:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from pacbell.net ([63.192.208.217]) by mta5.snfc21.pbi.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.01.05.12.18.p9) with ESMTP id <0G3I00AFDMZ9BC@mta5.snfc21.pbi.net> for questions@FreeBSD.org; Sat, 4 Nov 2000 11:47:33 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 12:40:22 -0800 From: killbot@pacbell.net Subject: non-booting bsd newbie To: questions@FreeBSD.org Message-id: <3A047436.568F2FA5@pacbell.net> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14-5.0 i686) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hello everybody- i've just install bsd for the first time. i installed via ftp and everything went great. well, that is up until it was time to boot off the disk. the floppy disk llight comes on and stays on as if it's looking for something. anyway, there must be a way to rewrite the mbr and/or verify the boot loader. i manually mounted each of the filesystems and it's all good. here's a list of my partitions device mount pt. ad0s1a / ad0s1b swap ad0s2e /home ad0s2f /usr thanks -brent a. thorne To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message