repost of boot issue on 5.3

[Donald J. O'Neill]

On Saturday 05 February 2005 05:20 pm, J.D. Bronson wrote:
> 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)...

Hi J.D.

As I read what you've said above, it appears that the problem is that 
you don't have a boot manager installed on the hard drive. The manual 
says that for what you have - one hard drive, only FreeBSD - you don't 
need the FreeBSD boot manager. However, if you did have the FreeBSD 
boot manager installed, it would boot up the way you want. Mine does. 


> >> 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?

On the other hand, how long are you waiting before becoming impatient 
and hitting return? 

> >>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-block
> >s.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.

When you first set it up, did you make the drive bootable, then select 
no boot manager?

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