Re: Dual booting problems

2007-03-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 12:34:10AM +, RW wrote: On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 13:30:26 -0900 Beech Rintoul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I should also mention that you need the FreeBSD boot manager on both disks, or an alternative boot manager such as grub or gag. Read the handbook. I recall

Re: Dual booting problems

2007-03-02 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Jerry McAllister wrote: If you select F5 (maybe F6 or more, I should try that some time) it will instead cause the MBR from that second (maybe third, etc) disk to be loaded and passes control to it. F5 moves to the next disk. From that next disk F5 moves on to the next disk again and so

Re: Dual booting problems

2007-03-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 05:39:05PM +, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: If you select F5 (maybe F6 or more, I should try that some time) it will instead cause the MBR from that second (maybe third, etc) disk to be loaded and passes control to it. F5 moves to the next

Re: Dual booting problems

2007-03-02 Thread RW
On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 11:37:26 -0500 Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 12:34:10AM +, RW wrote: On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 13:30:26 -0900 Beech Rintoul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I should also mention that you need the FreeBSD boot manager on both disks, or

Re: Dual booting problems

2007-03-02 Thread RW
On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 12:49:23 -0500 Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 05:39:05PM +, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: (*) Actually I have no idea what would happen if you stuck some other booter like grub or gag on a later disk. But blank (new) disk or Windows MBR

Re: Dual booting problems

2007-03-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 05:52:52PM +, RW wrote: On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 11:37:26 -0500 Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 12:34:10AM +, RW wrote: On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 13:30:26 -0900 Beech Rintoul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I should also mention

Dual booting problems

2007-03-01 Thread Sam Jones
I'm having a little problem trying to dual boot. I have two SATA hard drives, the first one with FreeBSD and the second with Windows XP. I installed the FreeBSD boot manager on the first drive, and when the computer boots, it displays: F1 FreeBSD F5 Drive 1 When I press F5, FreeBSD loads and

Re: Dual booting problems

2007-03-01 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Thursday 01 March 2007 12:36, Sam Jones said: I'm having a little problem trying to dual boot. I have two SATA hard drives, the first one with FreeBSD and the second with Windows XP. I installed the FreeBSD boot manager on the first drive, and when the computer boots, it displays: F1

Re: Dual booting problems

2007-03-01 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Thursday 01 March 2007 13:21, Beech Rintoul said: On Thursday 01 March 2007 12:36, Sam Jones said: I'm having a little problem trying to dual boot. I have two SATA hard drives, the first one with FreeBSD and the second with Windows XP. I installed the FreeBSD boot manager on the first

Re: Dual booting problems

2007-03-01 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 04:36:45PM -0500, Sam Jones wrote: I'm having a little problem trying to dual boot. I have two SATA hard drives, the first one with FreeBSD and the second with Windows XP. I installed the FreeBSD boot manager on the first drive, and when the computer boots, it

Re: Dual booting problems

2007-03-01 Thread RW
On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 13:30:26 -0900 Beech Rintoul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I should also mention that you need the FreeBSD boot manager on both disks, or an alternative boot manager such as grub or gag. Read the handbook. I recall reading that too, but I've never understood what it's supposed

mfs_root booting problems

2006-11-02 Thread Paul Procacci
Hey all, I've been having a problem that hopefully someone would be able to help me with. I've been trying to boot FreeBSD via PXE for at least a couple of days now with no luck. I've read several online guides none of which explain using a root mfs to accomplish this task. Most of the

Re: booting problems

2006-04-20 Thread Martin Tournoy
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 21:46:24 -, boy red [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have so far installed freeBSD OS and set up the accounts but im having some problems. it just takes me 2 a black DOS type screen and i dont know how 2 get in. by getting in i mean that it doesnt take me to the place where

booting problems

2006-04-19 Thread boy red
i have so far installed freeBSD OS and set up the accounts but im having some problems. it just takes me 2 a black DOS type screen and i dont know how 2 get in. by getting in i mean that it doesnt take me to the place where i actually start using the computer. please help.

Re: booting problems

2006-04-19 Thread Victor Lundwall
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 boy red wrote: i have so far installed freeBSD OS and set up the accounts but im having some problems. it just takes me 2 a black DOS type screen and i dont know how 2 get in. by getting in i mean that it doesnt take me to the place where i

Re: booting problems

2006-04-19 Thread David J Brooks
On Wednesday 19 April 2006 16:46, boy red wrote: i have so far installed freeBSD OS and set up the accounts but im having some problems. it just takes me 2 a black DOS type screen and i dont know how 2 get in. by getting in i mean that it doesnt take me to the place where i actually start

Re: booting problems

2006-04-19 Thread pete wright
On 4/19/06, boy red [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have so far installed freeBSD OS and set up the accounts but im having some problems. it just takes me 2 a black DOS type screen and i dont know how 2 get in. by getting in i mean that it doesnt take me to the place where i actually start using

HP AMD64 booting problems...

2005-02-28 Thread Brian J. McGovern
I recently picked up an HP5460 AMD64 laptop, and I recently wanted to try FreeBSD on it. Unfortunately, both the x86 and AMD64 versions will not boot, actually shutting the power down shortly after the kernel finishes loading. I've tried 5.3 and 4.8 with similar results, also cycling through

Re: HP AMD64 booting problems...

2005-02-28 Thread Jung-uk Kim
On Monday 28 February 2005 06:56 pm, Brian J. McGovern wrote: I recently picked up an HP5460 AMD64 laptop, and I recently wanted to try FreeBSD on it. Unfortunately, both the x86 and AMD64 versions will not boot, actually shutting the power down shortly after the kernel finishes loading. I've

Booting problems

2005-02-23 Thread Teilhard Knight
I am not an expert on FreeBSD and I am not an expert on hardware. I think I am going nuts compiling my kernel of release 4.11. It compliles all right but it wouldn't boot. The error I get is: panic no BSP found. Anyone has an idea of what that means? I'll give you my configuration file just in

Booting problems

2005-02-23 Thread Teilhard Knight
I am not an expert on FreeBSD and I am not an expert on hardware. I think I am going nuts compiling my kernel of release 4.11. It compliles all right but it wouldn't boot. The error I get is: panic no BSP found. Anyone has an idea of what that means? I'll give you my configuration file just in

Re: Booting problems

2005-02-23 Thread Toomas Aas
Teilhard Knight wrote: I am not an expert on FreeBSD and I am not an expert on hardware. Neither am I, but... The error I get is: panic no BSP found. Anyone has an idea of what that means? I'll give you my configuration file just in case someone takes the trouble to have a look at it. My machine

Re: Booting problems

2005-02-23 Thread Teilhard Knight
- Original Message - From: Toomas Aas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Teilhard Knight [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: FreeBSD freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 1:51 PM Subject: Re: Booting problems Teilhard Knight wrote: I am not an expert on FreeBSD and I am not an expert

Booting problems

2005-01-07 Thread Kvesdn Gbor
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Booting problems

2005-01-07 Thread Kvesdn Gbor
Hi, I have an amd64 server machine with a 3ware 8506-4lp raid controller and succeeded in installing the FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE on this machine in safe mode, but it boots only in safe mode. I've upgraded the kernel to stable, but there's no result. I don't know what's the difference between the safe