repost of boot issue on 5.3

[J.D. Bronson]

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)...
>>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?
>>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-blocks.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.





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