Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 08:36:27 +0530 From: Subhro <subhro.kar@gmail.com> To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: Phil Thomson <philthom@freeshell.org> Subject: Re: Can't boot Message-ID: <b2807d040408312006485b5665@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.60.0409010244130.3754@sdf.lonestar.org> References: <Pine.NEB.4.60.0409010244130.3754@sdf.lonestar.org>
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I assume that you are installing *only* FreeBSD on the Pentium and not multibooting it. Did you select to install the standard MBR or did u select to leave he MBR untouched? What happens when you try to boot the system fromthe hadr drive? Regard S. On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 02:49:51 +0000 (UTC), Phil Thomson <philthom@freeshell.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > Just installed FreeBSD on a Pentium 150 I found in the garbage (!), and it > seems the installation went fine, but I cannot boot. I had to use the boot > floppies to start the installation, so I used those to boot from to try > and figure out how to configure the boot options in sysinstall, but I had > no luck. I tried using the fixit floppy, but I don't understand how to > find the hard drive or what I would do when I got there (I'm kind of a > newbie to FreeBSD). The "holographic shell" didnt work (no shell came up > at all). I can't currently rescue from a CD as I did a network install > from floppies. What is the next step? > > P > > "Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." > Popular Mechanics, 1949 > > ========= > Phil Thomson > home: http://www.sfu.ca/~pthomson > label: http://centibel.org/ > group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/databenders/ > ========= > > SDF Public Access UNIX System > http://www.freeshell.org/ > Geekier than you since 1987. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Subhro Sankha Kar School of Information Technology Block AQ-13/1 Sector V ZIP 700091 India
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