Date: 13 Jan 2003 08:13:52 -0800 From: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) To: Matt <matt@cfxu.stfx.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.7-Release Won't Boot (Non-MIME) Message-ID: <5py95pc9j3.95p@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20030112223221.K31291-100000@cfxu.stfx.ca> References: <20030112223221.K31291-100000@cfxu.stfx.ca>
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Matt <matt@cfxu.stfx.ca> writes: > problems, upon reboot after the install is complete the system reports a > disk error and FreeBSD will not boot from the hard drive, it does not > begin loading FreeBSD or anything at all. Other OS's have worked on the Since you have it running, use "boot0cfg" to make a boot floppy and try booting from that. Might as will run boot0cfg on the MBR and try that too. Guessing further, you might have a disk geometry setting that the FreeBSD OS itself is happy with for installation, etc, but which your BIOS doesn't like to support booting. The "boot0" boot loader uses the BIOS to load the OS. For one thing, your "a" (/) partition might have to be in the first 1024 cylinders. The boot0cfg man page says it can boot past that with BIOS support (if you use the "packet" option), but the installer probably doesn't use that for some reason (and I tried it on a fairly modern OS with LBA disk addressing and it couldn't boot past 1024 anyway). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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