At 05:19 PM 2/5/2005, Chris Hodgins wrote:
J.D. Bronson wrote:
No one responded - I am sure someone out there knows what the deal is here...
I did a full install from CDROM on a fresh new clean drive.
Freebsd is the ONLY OS on the drive. And i used the entire drive.
I selected the standard boot manager (not the freebsd one)...
and all the install went fine. This is what I see when I reboot after install:
FreeBSD/i386 BOOT
Default: 0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader
boot:
..and it JUST SITS there. If I hit the return key, it will boot up into the beastie menu and boot fine. How can I get this machine to boot up on its OWN?
The boot startup sequence on the machine is HARD DRIVE THEN CDROM.
This is the only hard drive in the system.
Please if anyone knows how to fix this?? - A fresh install with a fresh drive....and still no luck.
This might give you a few ideas. :)
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot-blocks.html#BOOT-BOOT1
Chris
I tried this (even tho a full install it SHOULD not be needed) and I still get the same darn thing. I am really disappointed as I dont know why its hanging.
My /boot/loader.rc file looks like this:
/boot$ cat loader.rc
\ Loader.rc
\ $FreeBSD: src/sys/boot/i386/loader/loader.rc,v 1.2 2003/11/21 19:01:02 dcs Exp $
\
\ Includes additional commands
include /boot/loader.4th
\ Reads and processes loader.rc start
\ Tests for password -- executes autoboot first if a password was defined check-password
\ Load in the boot menu include /boot/beastie.4th
\ Start the boot menu beastie-start
This seems to be the place where you get it to load the right things...check that out. I am no expert btw. :)
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