Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 19:49:53 -0700 From: Pramod Venugopal <pramod@dvnull.org> To: Perry Hutchison <perryh@pluto.rain.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new 6.1 install will not boot Message-ID: <A0461F85-7C62-41CA-9AF3-0A4D5E4254F4@dvnull.org> In-Reply-To: <10608150224.AA25564@pluto.rain.com> References: <10608150224.AA25564@pluto.rain.com>
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Do you get the FreeBSD boot menu ? Pramod Venugopal pramod@dvnull.org On Aug 14, 2006, at 7:24 PM, Perry Hutchison wrote: > I've just installed FreeBSD 6.1 on a Dell Pentium III, and I must have > done something wrong -- or missed a step -- somewhere along the way. > > When trying to boot, I do not get even as far as the situation > described in sec. 4.2.5 of the installation instructions. The system > hangs, with a completely blank screen and the curson on (I think) the > second line, immediately after the BIOS loads the boot record from the > FreeBSD partition. Keyboard input is ignored except for CtrlAltDel, > which reboots and hangs again the same way. Booting a Windows 98 CD > and running fdisk confirms that the FreeBSD partition is active. > > I'm not even getting anywhere trying to read the documentation: > I can still boot from the FreeBSD CD, but if I try to view the HTML > docs from the Doc menu it says this can only be done after the system > is installed. (The system *has* been installed, it just won't boot!) > > Is there any way to recover from this? Even if I were to start > completely over I would have no clue what to do differently. > If it were a Linux installation I would try booting from floppy, > but I did not see any chance during the FreeBSD installation to > create a boot floppy. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- > unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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