On Saturday 05 February 2005 05:20 pm, J.D. Bronson wrote: > 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)...
Hi J.D.
As I read what you've said above, it appears that the problem is that you don't have a boot manager installed on the hard drive. The manual says that for what you have - one hard drive, only FreeBSD - you don't need the FreeBSD boot manager. However, if you did have the FreeBSD boot manager installed, it would boot up the way you want. Mine does.
> >> 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?
On the other hand, how long are you waiting before becoming impatient and hitting return?
> >>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-block > >s.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.
When you first set it up, did you make the drive bootable, then select no boot manager?
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I'm not totally useless, I can be used as a bad example.
I just created a PR on this issue. It has to do with whether or not the 2nd IDE channel is enabled -or- if there is a drive on it.
When I did the install - I selected the MIDDLE option "Install a standard MBR" as I usually do.
This is really weird. I never have seen this before. Maybe someone else has.
Here is the description of my PR:
Using 5.3 release is when I 1st noticed this. CVSup to 5.3-STABLE does not fix this trouble.
If both IDE channels are enabled and they are all set to AUTO/AUTO for master/slave and there is no drive (yet) installed to IDE channel2, the machine hangs at boot. If I install a drive to IDE channel2, the machine boots.
If I disable IDE channel2, the machine will boot.
When it hangs, all I see on the console is:
FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default: 0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader boot:
...if I hit <return> at this point, the beastie menu comes up. The machine will NOT boot on it's own.
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