Boot loader doesn't see [root filesystem on] ATA disk after successful install

[Brian O'Shea]

--- Brian O'Shea <b_oshea at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> I just noticed this:
>
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/troubleshoot.html#BOOT-READ-ERROR
> 
> So I rebooted the system again and in the fdisk partition editor
> I re-entered the disk geometry values that I got from the system BIOS,
> and pressed 'W' as the above web page suggests.  It then produced this
> warning:
> 
>     WARNING: This should only be used when modifying an EXISTING
>     installation.  If you are installing FreeBSD for the first time
>     ...
>     Are you absolutely sure you want to do this now?

Ok, so I decided to do it since the data on the disk is not important,
but got the same result (boot loader can't find the root filesystem on
the disk).  I'm at a loss.

-brian



		
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