Re: Cannot boot FreeBSD (8.0) from USB stick (Dell Inspiron 9400)

2010-01-23 Thread Christoph Kukulies
Fbsd1 schrieb: Christoph Kukulies wrote: I don't know why you shout. (?) Not shouting, just making my inserted comments visible within the old post as in different from bottom or top posting. Ok, writing in capitals is normally treated as shouting (see netiquette) or only allowed when

Re: Cannot boot FreeBSD (8.0) from USB stick (Dell Inspiron 9400)

2010-01-22 Thread Fbsd1
Christoph Kukulies wrote: Fbsd1 schrieb: Christoph Kukulies wrote: I installed FreeBSD 8.0 on an USB-stick and was able to boot it on my Desktop PC and install 8.0 from it. DO YOU MEAN YOU INSTALLED THE 8.0 ISO ON A USB STICK. BOOTED FROM IT AS INSTALL SOURCE AND INSTALLED 8.0 ON A DESKTOP

Re: Cannot boot FreeBSD (8.0) from USB stick (Dell Inspiron 9400)

2010-01-22 Thread Christoph Kukulies
I don't know why you shout. (?) Fbsd1 schrieb: Christoph Kukulies wrote: Fbsd1 schrieb: Christoph Kukulies wrote: I installed FreeBSD 8.0 on an USB-stick and was able to boot it on my Desktop PC and install 8.0 from it. DO YOU MEAN YOU INSTALLED THE 8.0 ISO ON A USB STICK. BOOTED FROM IT

Re: Cannot boot FreeBSD (8.0) from USB stick (Dell Inspiron 9400)

2010-01-22 Thread Christoph Kukulies
Here is some more info: The file I copied to the USB stick was ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/8.0/8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick.img Actually, I don't remember how I got the image to the USB stick. I believe I used a free tool from HP from within Windows XP. I will

Re: Cannot boot FreeBSD (8.0) from USB stick (Dell Inspiron 9400)

2010-01-22 Thread Fbsd1
Christoph Kukulies wrote: I don't know why you shout. (?) Not shouting, just making my inserted comments visible within the old post as in different from bottom or top posting. Fbsd1 schrieb: Christoph Kukulies wrote: Fbsd1 schrieb: Christoph Kukulies wrote: I installed FreeBSD 8.0 on

Re: Cannot boot FreeBSD (8.0) from USB stick (Dell Inspiron 9400)

2010-01-22 Thread Fbsd1
Christoph Kukulies wrote: Here is some more info: The file I copied to the USB stick was ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/8.0/8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick.img Actually, I don't remember how I got the image to the USB stick. I believe I used a free tool from HP from

Re: Cannot boot FreeBSD (8.0) from USB stick (Dell Inspiron 9400)

2010-01-22 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 294, Issue 12, Message 1 On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:59:00 +0100 Christoph Kukulies k...@kukulies.org wrote: Here is some more info: The file I copied to the USB stick was

Cannot boot FreeBSD (8.0) from USB stick (Dell Inspiron 9400)

2010-01-21 Thread Christoph Kukulies
I installed FreeBSD 8.0 on an USB-stick and was able to boot it on my Desktop PC and install 8.0 from it. Now I plugged the same stick into my Dell Inspiron 9400 and the USB stick (2GB) is not even listed in the F12 Bios boot menu. Any clues? -- Christoph

Re: Cannot boot FreeBSD (8.0) from USB stick (Dell Inspiron 9400)

2010-01-21 Thread Fbsd1
Christoph Kukulies wrote: I installed FreeBSD 8.0 on an USB-stick and was able to boot it on my Desktop PC and install 8.0 from it. Now I plugged the same stick into my Dell Inspiron 9400 and the USB stick (2GB) is not even listed in the F12 Bios boot menu. Any clues? -- Christoph

Re: Cannot boot FreeBSD (8.0) from USB stick (Dell Inspiron 9400)

2010-01-21 Thread Christoph Kukulies
Fbsd1 schrieb: Christoph Kukulies wrote: I installed FreeBSD 8.0 on an USB-stick and was able to boot it on my Desktop PC and install 8.0 from it. Now I plugged the same stick into my Dell Inspiron 9400 and the USB stick (2GB) is not even listed in the F12 Bios boot menu. Any clues? --

Re: cannot boot freebsd

2009-11-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 06:57:02PM -0600, Jesús Abidan wrote: i did it like you say, but something is happening with my installation, it boots always the first OS, i don't have any ideas for having a dual system... argh!! Perchance, is your other system MS-Vista? As I mentioned in a previous

Re: cannot boot freebsd

2009-11-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 10:04:29AM -0600, Jesús Abidan wrote: i think i have the problem... i have two hard disks, IDE and SATA, i saw in my MS XP, my root label is F: instead of C: maybe it is something related to jumpers or something like that? That is a little surprise to me, but I am

Re: cannot boot freebsd

2009-11-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 09:38:27AM -0600, Jesús Abidan wrote: First, please send all messages to the freebsd-questions list and not just to me. That is proper list etiquette, plus you will be able to get responses from more than just me. Others may know more. In other words, always do a

Re: cannot boot freebsd

2009-11-12 Thread Jesús Abidan
ok, sorry... 2009/11/12 Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 09:38:27AM -0600, Jesús Abidan wrote: First, please send all messages to the freebsd-questions list and not just to me. That is proper list etiquette, plus you will be able to get responses from more than

Re: cannot boot freebsd

2009-11-12 Thread Jesús Abidan
no idea... the machine had only one hard drive(PATA), then i plugged a new sata HD(freebsd style), with information on it. The PATA drive is cofigured as the primary disk, and the sata in bios it says is in PORT 0. I'll try removing the SATA disk and install freebsd, maybe is the jumper

Re: cannot boot freebsd

2009-11-12 Thread Jesús Abidan
no, it is not the disk, i removed it and the same problem... 2009/11/12 Jesús Abidan jabi...@gmail.com no idea... the machine had only one hard drive(PATA), then i plugged a new sata HD(freebsd style), with information on it. The PATA drive is cofigured as the primary disk, and the sata in

cannot boot freebsd

2009-11-11 Thread Jesús Abidan
Hi there, i have a problem here, i installed windows in mi box and i left a partition for freebsd, i finished install of freebsd and installed the boot mgr of freebsd but when i reboot only windows boots with f1 pressed? how can I make the system boots both?

Re: cannot boot freebsd

2009-11-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 11:02:35AM -0600, Jesús Abidan wrote: Hi there, i have a problem here, i installed windows in mi box and i left a partition for freebsd, i finished install of freebsd and installed the boot mgr of freebsd but when i reboot only windows boots with f1 pressed? how can I

Re: cannot boot freebsd

2009-11-11 Thread Neal Hogan
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Jesús Abidan jabi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there, i have a problem here, i installed windows in mi box and i left a partition for freebsd, i finished install of freebsd and installed the boot mgr of freebsd but when i reboot only windows boots with f1 pressed?

Re: cannot boot freebsd

2009-11-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:27:13PM -0600, Jesús Abidan wrote: i pressed f2 for freebsd and nothing happens... i pressed f1 for windows. I install freebsd on the first partition and now it occurs the viceversa, i cannot boot windows, does it have to be something with the order of the

Re: cannot boot freebsd

2009-11-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 01:22:58PM -0600, Jesús Abidan wrote: ok. the slices in freebsd are little tricky, i will check my installation and send some feedback later. ?? FreeBSD slices are pretty straight forward. They are just the name of the 4 primary divisions of a disk - limited to 4 by

Re: cannot boot freebsd

2009-11-11 Thread Chris Rees
2009/11/11 Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: snip  That is because MS-Win doesn't play very well if installed later and/or in a different slice. Windows behaves fine for me whatever slice it's installed in. What IS important is that it's installed first, as you said before. You can

Re: cannot boot freebsd

2009-11-11 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 11 Nov 2009, Jerry McAllister wrote: I have heard some complaints about MS-Vista and having to do some other monkeying around to get an MBR to handle it correctly, but I don't know details and I do not (lucky me) have any Vista machines to joust with. EasyBCD from neosmart.net is an

Cannot boot FreeBSD kernel

2003-03-04 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Hi list, trying to boot a FreeBSD kernel with etherboot 5.0.6 results in: ... Loading 134.102.176.16:/tftpboot/bsd-diskless ...(ELF)... segment does not fit in any memory region What does this mean? The kernel is 2390599 bytes. Did i hit a size limitation? I am attaching the Etherboot Config

Re: Cannot boot FreeBSD kernel with etherboot

2003-03-04 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Heinrich Rebehn wrote: Hi list, trying to boot a FreeBSD kernel with etherboot 5.0.6 results in: ... Loading 134.102.176.16:/tftpboot/bsd-diskless ...(ELF)... segment does not fit in any memory region What does this mean? The kernel is 2390599 bytes. Did i hit a size limitation? I am

Re: Cannot boot FreeBSD kernel with etherboot

2003-03-04 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 02:38:29PM +0100, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: Heinrich Rebehn wrote: Hi list, trying to boot a FreeBSD kernel with etherboot 5.0.6 results in: ... Loading 134.102.176.16:/tftpboot/bsd-diskless ...(ELF)... segment does not fit in any memory region What does this