Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 12:09:03 -0500 (EST) From: Jeremy Sigmon <jsigmon@www.hsc.wvu.edu> To: Lanny Baron <lannyb@cybertouch.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't boot after successful install Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961201120605.22660D-100000@www.hsc.wvu.edu> In-Reply-To: <14565556000331@cybertouch.com>
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> Hello, > > Can someone tell me why after installing FreeBSD on my third hard > drive (IDE), upon rebooting the prompts are F1 and F2, F2 being the > BSD drive, the system goes to "BOOT" and stops and then reboots with > the above coming up all the time. > > I have tried reinstalling BSD about 30 times and can't figure out > what it is I am doing wrong. > One thing which might help is if you clear out all the old booteasy boot records before you try and install freebsd again. For dos/win you would boot into dos and use the following FDISK /MBR do this on all of your drives (I think..) this will write a new clean master boot record to the HD. I think you have installed booteasy on a drive which already has it installed which has bitten me before. Jeremy
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