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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!chi-news.cic.net!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!in2.uu.net!tetsuo.communique.net!usenet From: jim.king@mail.sstar.com (Jim King) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Can't get FreeBSD to Boot! Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 03:41:31 GMT Organization: Communique Inc., New Orleans Lines: 18 Message-ID: <461t1a$oce@tetsuo.communique.net> References: <42vcre$664@nntp.interaccess.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: s4.sstar.com X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 january@thymaster.interaccess.com (January) wrote: >*grr* this is an annoying problem. I just installed FreeBSD 2.0.5 onto my >hard disk. Problem is, it won't boot. If I hit enter at the Boot: prompt, >all that happens is >| >sits in the corner of the screen -- doesn't spin or anything. I've tried >booting with a bootdisk and pointing it to wd(0,a)/kernel, but that >didn't work either. >Could it be because this is on a 1.2G EIDE drive (with an EIDE >controller, of course), and the FreeBSD partition starts above 1024 cyl? I get the same thing. I've tried installing on the second partition of a 1.6 GB EIDE drive, and as the sole partition on a 540 MB EIDE drive - same results as yours both times.