From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 15 19:34:41 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id TAA25243 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 15 Sep 1995 19:34:41 -0700 Received: from dns.interaccess.com (mailhost.interaccess.com [198.80.0.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA25238 for ; Fri, 15 Sep 1995 19:34:35 -0700 Received: from victoria.winter.org (root@d136.nb.interaccess.com [199.88.137.136]) by dns.interaccess.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id VAA06233 for ; Fri, 15 Sep 1995 21:24:58 -0500 Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 21:33:10 -0500 (CDT) From: January X-Sender: root@victoria.winter.org Reply-To: january@interaccess.com To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Getting FreeBSD to boot Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Someone suggested I mail this service with my question so here goes... :) I have a 486DX4/100, 16M RAM, Maxtor 1.2Gb E-IDE disk. I installed FreeBSD 2.0.5 on a block of the disk that straddles the 1024 cylinder boundary. The root (/) partition, however, is entirely below the boundary. Here's the problem. It won't boot. When I select it off of my boot menu, the FreeBSD BOOT: prompt comes up with its little message. If I let it time out, or press (or anything else for that matter), | appears in the corner of the screen. It does not spin; it just sits there. At that point, I have to coldboot my machine. I cannot get it to boot by pointing a bootdisk to the harddrive either. Please help me on this... I would very much like to be using FreeBSD 2.0.5. :) -dp