Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 10:57:49 -0600 From: Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@ub.edu.bz> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: boot loader won't boot freebsd slice Message-ID: <20031201165749.GK15894@npkfbsd>
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--NqNl6FRZtoRUn5bW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The hard disk in my laptop went bad so I just dropped in a new one and did a standard install, putting a small DOS partition at the beginning on which to install the thinkpad bios configuration utility. For some reason the freebsd bootloader will boot DOS on the first slice, but only beeps when I try to boot to the FreeBSD slice. It would seem that the bootloader isn't aware that there is any bootable OS at that slice, like maybe the bootblocks on that slice are missing or incorrect. I have already tried a complete reinstall and playing around with marking slices as active and not. I know that the slice is has a valid OS because I can use the install disks to boot to that slice. I have also tried using the 'packet' option on boot0cfg to no effect. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks, Nathan --=20 gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys D8527E49 --NqNl6FRZtoRUn5bW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/y3MNO0ZIEthSfkkRApysAKDW58c6YSKuX2NXvpfjOCXyKiT1SACff182 VaI+EIHShaZs3ffZPg5hg9E= =/DKE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --NqNl6FRZtoRUn5bW--
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