From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 24 21:37:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA14767 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 21:37:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts11-line1.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.116]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA14762 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 21:37:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA00291; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 21:37:22 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 21:37:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: jivko@ijs.com cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems installing FreeBSD 2.1 off the Jan. Walnut Creek CD In-Reply-To: <199607240745.AAA02256@ijs.com> 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, 24 Jul 1996 jivko@ijs.com wrote: > I am trying to install FreeBSD 2.1 on a 486 machine with 16M RAM, 154x > SCSI card and 1G drive (2.0 was running just fine on the same machine) > and here is the problem: > > The installation goes very smoothly without any error messages, > however when at the end I exit from the installation utility the > machine cannot load from the HD at all. I looked into the partition > table on the HD and was surprised to see that at the location pointed > to by the 'Active Partition' record I could find nothing but 'F6'es. Did you RESET the active slice flag to a valid slice? The install utility will sometimes remove it. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major