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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!not-for-mail From: wcp@lpds.sublink.org (Walter C. Pelissero) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: MBR problems :( Date: 22 Jan 1995 19:37:11 -0600 Organization: Sweet home under white clouds Lines: 26 Sender: nobody@cs.utexas.edu Message-ID: <WCP.95Jan22194900@lpds.lpds.com> References: <D2IGFx.H8z@serval.net.wsu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.cs.utexas.edu >>>>> "Charles" == Charles E Youse <cyouse@axposf.pa.dec.com> writes: In article <D2IGFx.H8z@serval.net.wsu.edu> cyouse@axposf.pa.dec.com (Charles E. Youse) writes: Charles> I feel like a dolt. Anyway, i'm a recent FreeBSD convert, I Charles> just got the 2.0 release and (after just littl edifficulty) Charles> got it up and running. The problem is, I don't understand the Charles> loader installed on the MBR. I can boot from the distribution Charles> boot floppy, and tell it to boot device wd(0,a), but that's a Charles> pain in the butt. Charles> The MBR on the hard drive boots up and says... Charles> f1. FreeBSD Charles> Default: F? Charles> Which seems to make sense, but no matter what I press, or do, Charles> the system just repeats and repeats the prompt. This is normal if you prepared just one partition (and the boot prompt tell me so). Re-install _without_ writing the boot manager (B command in the Disklabel screen). It is pretty useless in a single partitioned disk, after all. -- P4 32 8 @A ^@@A ^@@Ax^@@A ^@DA"^@D]%xJe&H1\236\331\306