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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!taco.cc.ncsu.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!tcsi.tcs.com!agate!tfs.com!mailhub.tfs.com!julian From: julian@mailhub.tfs.com (Julian Elischer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: boot problem redux Date: 2 Dec 1995 12:45:22 GMT Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Oakland, CA Lines: 31 Message-ID: <49php2$rnm@times.tfs.com> References: <49nmrj$hiu@magma.Mines.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: mailhub.tfs.com In article <49nmrj$hiu@magma.Mines.EDU>, Blauvelt <gblauvel@massive.Mines.EDU> wrote: :I'm stumped. I've read the faq and postings in this group, :made sure the drive geomotries in freebsd and the bios match, :moved the mount point to a partition which begins and ends :below cylinder 1024, etc. but still can't get it to boot from :the hard drive. : :Gateway 66MHz pentium, 700 meg IDE hard drive with ~100 meg :DOS partition, atapi CD rom drive (but I haven't started to :work on that problem yet). Boots from floppy. But when I attempt :to boot from the hard drive it just keeps giving me the f1/f2 :prompt and seems unable to locate any boot code. Yes, I've written :and rewritten the MBR. I'm certain that I'm doing (or not doing) :something pretty stupid (or simple) and I'd appreciate any :suggestions you might be able to make so that this system will :boot. tia, > post a copy of the output of: fdisk wd0 disklabel wd0 dmesg (after booting with -v) also give all the info about your drive and BIOS geometry.. BTW try reading the boot code in /sys/i386/boot/biosboot it's very illuminating, though it might take you a week to get your mind around it.. (it did me)