Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 04:16:21 -0800 (PST) From: NevTide <nevtide@yahoo.com> To: Vulpes Velox <v.velox@vvelox.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installs fine, but won't boot. Message-ID: <20060314121621.40287.qmail@web60912.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20060313204353.041b958f@vixen42.vulpes>
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--- Vulpes Velox <v.velox@vvelox.net> wrote: > On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 06:25:32 -0800 (PST) > NevTide <nevtide@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > I've been trying to get FreeBSD to run on my > Toshiba > > Satellite (m45 359). I tried a couple of times > with > > version 6.0 and the install went fine, but the > > computer doesn't seem to recognize the drive as > being > > bootable. (So I experimented with a couple > different > > options: standard boot manager, bsd boot manager, > > setting the partition (yes, it's a primary) to > > bootable, even erasing the whole drive and > allocating > > it to FreeBSD. Regardless of what I've tried, the > boot > > sequence doesn't see a hardrive and skips it. > > > > Also tried 5.4, but that freezes on booting the > > install cd (probably just need to disable acpi) > but I > > really don't want 5.4 anyways. > > > > Currently I'm writing this from ubuntu dapper (as > a > > test) - install went smooth and grub loaded with > no > > problem but I'd really prefer to get back to bsd. > > > > Thanks for anyway help or feedback. > > This is probally not the case, but when you got it > would it boot > windows properly and if not will it boot properly if > you hit > ctl+alt+del? > > I've seen hard drives get skipped over before > because of some what > slow spin up times. > Vulpes - Thanks for the reply. Yes, windows xp boots very well - I have actually since removed ubuntu (good distro, but I don't really like it and have temporarily gone back to winxp until I can get freebsd working.) So linux and winxp have both been installed and removed a couple times with no problems. Freebsd is the only one not wanting to play on this computer :-( For some strange reason, the drive isn't noticed when freebsd is on it (even when the boot manager is installed, the boot manager doesn't even load??) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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