installs fine, but won't boot.

NevTide nevtide at yahoo.com
Mon Mar 13 14:25:39 UTC 2006


I've been trying to get FreeBSD to run on my Toshiba
Satellite (m45 359). I tried a couple of times with
version 6.0 and the install went fine, but the
computer doesn't seem to recognize the drive as being
bootable. (So I experimented with a couple different
options: standard boot manager, bsd boot manager,
setting the partition (yes, it's a primary) to
bootable, even erasing the whole drive and allocating
it to FreeBSD. Regardless of what I've tried, the boot
sequence doesn't see a hardrive and skips it.

Also tried 5.4, but that freezes on booting the
install cd (probably just need to disable acpi) but I
really don't want 5.4 anyways.

Currently I'm writing this from ubuntu dapper (as a
test) - install went smooth and grub loaded with no
problem but I'd really prefer to get back to bsd.

Thanks for anyway help or feedback.

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