From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 1 12:55:13 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEE8E16A4CE for ; Thu, 1 Jan 2004 12:55:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc11.comcast.net (rwcrmhc11.comcast.net [204.127.198.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B59843D39 for ; Thu, 1 Jan 2004 12:55:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from clint@0lsen.net) Received: from 0lsen.net ([12.203.21.192]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc11) with ESMTP id <2004010120551101300n33qne>; Thu, 1 Jan 2004 20:55:12 +0000 Received: by 0lsen.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 99EF91468; Thu, 1 Jan 2004 12:55:11 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2004 12:55:11 -0800 From: Clint Olsen To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040101205511.GM42542@0lsen.net> References: <20040101201740.GL42542@0lsen.net> <1072989805.671.3.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1072989805.671.3.camel@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Organization: NULlsen Network X-Disclaimer: Mutt Bites! Subject: Re: Installed 5.2RC from CDROM, fails to boot in manager X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2004 20:55:13 -0000 On Jan 01, Ryan Sommers wrote: > > When you hit a key does anything show up on the next line after the > bootmanagers prompt, like a - / \ | character? If not then your MBR might > have been corrupted. Is it a constant tone or is it just an error beep > when you hit a key? I don't remember if boot0 makes a beep on a bad key > or not. No, it doesn't show any sort of booting character. It beeps no matter what key I hit. It just hangs there. This is a 40G Maxtor drive I swiped out of my Dell machine. I had some fun running fdisk on this thing. Fdisk could never get the geometry right for this disk - but it did appear to be able to detect the size correctly. It kept trying to create 3 partitions, instead of the usual 2 (the 0-63 partition 'hole' + the freebsd partition). At any rate, I got the screen to appear largely like it does on the fdisk menu in the FreeBSD Handbook (incorrectly guessing the disk size but at least getting the number of partitions right). > Is FreeBSD the only operating system you have on the system? You might > try chosing not to use a boot manager if it is the only OS. Yes, it's the only system. I have the boot manager on my 4.7 machine, so I didn't see any harm in using it again. I actually want to install a second disk with Windows on it so I can refer to it for emergency purposes. Thanks, -Clint