boot loader

[freebsd]

Gunter Wambaugh wrote:
> On Jul 16, 2005, at 1:53 AM, e-mail for freebsd wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have installed FreeBSD 5.4 (from CD) onto a ThinkPad A21.  I also  have
>> Win2Kpro on this laptop.  FreeBSD is installed at about the 7G mark  
>> on the
>> harddrive.
>>
>> I had 4.3 installed previously, and thought I would just start  over.  
>> Howver,
>> when the laptop boots, I get the f1 DOS f2 Freebsd prompt, but I  
>> can't boot
>> FreeBSD.  Win2K boots just fine.
>>
>> I tried a number of things:
>> 1) re-installing
>> 2) fixmbf (win2K utility to restore the mbr)
>>
>> With no success.  Any words of wisdom would be welcome.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Mike
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> 
> I had a similar problem last week.  I had FreeBSD on the first  
> partition and Gentoo on the second, and couldn't boot to Gentoo.  I  was 
> able to resolve my issue by doing:
> $ boot0cfg -o packet ad4
> 
> Thats from memory, so viewing the boot0cfg man page would be a good  idea.
> HTH

Gunther,

That did the trick.  I can now boot sucessfully.  Thanks!

That must somehow be connected to the comment that the geom isn't sane, 
using more sane numbers at install time. :)

Do you know anyting about X?  When I try to configure it, the screen 
goes white (slowly), and the machine locks up.  /sigh.

I have never seen X do this before.

Thanks for your help.

Mike