From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 23 18:44:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 74F0337B404 for ; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 18:44:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from walton.maths.tcd.ie by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id ; 24 Jun 2002 02:44:19 +0100 (BST) To: "Pietralla, Siegfried P" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: yet another boot problem In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 24 Jun 2002 09:45:05 +1000." <16649A8D5C73D51183B80008C728EEB7CC0AAD@AUSYM103> Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 02:44:19 +0100 From: Ian Dowse Message-ID: <200206240244.aa47440@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <16649A8D5C73D51183B80008C728EEB7CC0AAD@AUSYM103>, "Pietralla, Siegf ried P" writes: >i'm having a problem getting my new install of 4.5 to boot. i've >successfully run through the install onto ad3s3 and the boot manager for the >second disk comes up ( and lets me go back to disk one so i know it's >working ) but when i pick 'f3' it just beeps at me. i can boot into 4.3 in A beep when you press an F-key usually means that boot0 is unable to read the boot sector for the partition you selected, either because the geometry settings in the fdisk partition table don't match the BIOS, or because the cylinder number is greater than 1023. Try telling boot0 to use packet mode by running: boot0cfg -v -o packet /dev/ad3 This will cause boot0 to ignore the geometry and use LBA addressing instead. Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message