Milscvaer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
that. There must be something wrong with the boot
records that fdisk is not correcting.
I know friends who have had unuseable boot records as
well and have to boot from floppies, Its not really a
big inconvenience.
Spend some time with the boot,
Milscvaer wrote:
I am attempting to install FreeBSD on a Pentium
system
(133 Mhz Intel). The system already had 4.6 on it
so I
wished to delete the 4.6 system from the
filesystem
and install 5.4 onto the same UFS filesystem,
while
keeping /usr/home in place. I deleted everything
Milscvaer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I would like to try to boot the system on the hard
driv e from a floppy. Maybe there is something wrong
with the boot record on the HD. Does anyone know if
this is possible and how I can do that?
Sure, but you've left us in the dark as to what you have to
--- Gary W. Swearingen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Milscvaer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I would like to try to boot the system on the hard
driv e from a floppy. Maybe there is something
wrong
with the boot record on the HD. Does anyone know
if
this is possible and how I can do that?
--- Gary W. Swearingen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Milscvaer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I would like to try to boot the system on the hard
driv e from a floppy. Maybe there is something
wrong
with the boot record on the HD. Does anyone know
if
this is possible and how I can do that?
After trying unsuccessfully to boot FreeBSD 5.4
installed onto an existing filesystem that held 4.6,
but after the installation completing not being able
to get past the F1 FreeBSD prompt, I decided to wipe
out the filesystem and start with a new filesystem,
thinking this might be the problem! But
--- Gary W. Swearingen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Milscvaer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am sorry, I should explain the situation a more
clearly.
And I'm sorry that I don't have much more to say.
First, I apologise for being so upset. I was rather
frustrated by this.
I think that
I am attempting to install FreeBSD on a Pentium system
(133 Mhz Intel). The system already had 4.6 on it so I
wished to delete the 4.6 system from the filesystem
and install 5.4 onto the same UFS filesystem, while
keeping /usr/home in place. I deleted everything
except /usr/home (which I want the
Milscvaer wrote:
I am attempting to install FreeBSD on a Pentium system
(133 Mhz Intel). The system already had 4.6 on it so I
wished to delete the 4.6 system from the filesystem
and install 5.4 onto the same UFS filesystem, while
keeping /usr/home in place. I deleted everything
except /usr/home
On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Greg Barniskis wrote:
It can be argued (and has been, a lot) whether the hardware problems
that some folks clearly do have are the fault of the hardware or of
the new FreeBSD architecture. Myself, I think it's probably a little
of each. Even though the hardware in
Which boot prompt? The disk selector (F1, F2, ...,
Fn to choose a
disk to boot from) or the new boot menu where you
can select
different ways of booting (safe mode, etc.), or at
the kernel's
boot: prompt? Does it beep of its own accord, or
whenever you
strike keys?
It was the
On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 13:22:25 -0700 (PDT)
Milscvaer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have 32 MB of RAM. I tried going in and setting the
partition to active but this didnt make a difference.
I only have one hard disk. I did boot a fixit floppy
and mounted and looked at the filesystem, and noticed
(man chflags)
chflags noschg filename
5.4 has the kernel in /boot btw (and not in / as in
4.x)
Thank you for this information. This should come to be
quite handy if I can get the system to boot, if ever.
The chflags command isnt on the fixit floppy it
seems.
SInce the kernel is in /boot,
I tried to boot the kernel on the hard disk
/boot/kernel/kernel directly from a boot2 prompt on
one of the boot floppies by typing
ad(0,a)/boot/kernel/kernel, but I got the message BTX
halted. This is quickly becoming very frustrating.
I thought there was someway to boot the system on the
hd
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