Date: Tue, 15 Aug 06 09:57:58 PDT From: perryh@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison) To: pramod@dvnull.org Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new 6.1 install will not boot Message-ID: <10608151657.AA27024@pluto.rain.com>
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> Do you get the FreeBSD boot menu ? > > Pramod Venugopal > pramod@dvnull.org No. The BIOS clears the screen and loads the boot sector, then nothing. > 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. ...
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