Can't boot

[Phil Thomson]

> I assume that you are installing *only* FreeBSD on the Pentium and not
> multibooting it. Did you select to install the standard MBR or did u
> select to leave he MBR untouched? What happens when you try to boot
> the system fromthe hadr drive?

Yes, FreeBSD is to be the only system on the machine. I actually don't 
remember what I chose to do with regards to the MBR; was there a point in 
the installation I would have made that choice? I'm pretty sure I would 
have chosen to install the standard MBR as there are no other systems on 
the machine. Is there a way I can fix the MBR now if that's the issue? I 
couldn't find that in sysinstall.

When I try to boot from the hard drive, it says "Read error".

P


> Regard
> S.
>
> On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 02:49:51 +0000 (UTC), Phil Thomson
> <philthom at freeshell.org> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Just installed FreeBSD on a Pentium 150 I found in the garbage (!), and it
>> seems the installation went fine, but I cannot boot. I had to use the boot
>> floppies to start the installation, so I used those to boot from to try
>> and figure out how to configure the boot options in sysinstall, but I had
>> no luck. I tried using the fixit floppy, but I don't understand how to
>> find the hard drive or what I would do when I got there (I'm kind of a
>> newbie to FreeBSD). The "holographic shell" didnt work (no shell came up
>> at all). I can't currently rescue from a CD as I did a network install
>> from floppies. What is the next step?
>>
>> P
>>
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