From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Dec 15 1: 9:52 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 15 01:09:49 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from scully.zoominternet.net (scully.zoominternet.net [63.67.120.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B713137B400 for ; Fri, 15 Dec 2000 01:09:48 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 13044 invoked from network); 15 Dec 2000 09:09:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO donnmill) (24.154.34.186) by scully.zoominternet.net with SMTP; 15 Dec 2000 09:09:36 -0000 Message-ID: <000501c06676$c57495a0$ba229a18@zbzoom.net> From: "Donn Miller" To: , "Cliff Sarginson" References: Subject: Re: 4.2 Not booting problem Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 04:09:46 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cliff Sarginson" To: Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 4:03 AM Subject: 4.2 Not booting problem > I installed 4.2 on my test machine. > A Tulip P90. 48MB Ram, 2Gig disk. > Installation went smoothly. > But, when re-booting, nothing appeared on the screen. Did it say "invalid partition table"? > My final solution was to installa small linux system on it, then > install BSD and use Lilo. This worked fine. Sounds like you forgot to set the root partition "active". - Donn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message