From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 14 21:12:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA14662 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 21:12:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA14634 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 21:12:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA28291; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 21:11:02 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 21:11:01 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Wes Peters cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help!!! Cannot get 2.2--961014-SNAP to boot! In-Reply-To: <199611132225.OAA21477@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Wes Peters wrote: > I've been trying for two days now to install this SNAPSHOT. I've tried > two different disk drives, WD 1.0 and 1.0 G IDE drives, on three > different systems (Gateway P5/90, Gateway 4DX2-66V, and generic > 486/33). In each case, I get the OS installed via the internet from > ftp.freebsd.org, but when I reboot the boot manager gives me the > F? prompt and cannot boot from the hard disk. In all these cases, it is because the geometry is misdetected on the target disk. Try reinstalling, this time put a small DOS partition on the disk, then delete it from the install program and put FreeBSD over it. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major