boot loader

[Gunter Wambaugh]

On Jul 16, 2005, at 1:35 PM, freebsd wrote:

> 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 configured X many, many times.  I haven't had what you  
describe happen to me.  What are you using to configure it?  And I  
assume you're using xorg, correct?

> I have never seen X do this before.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Mike
>
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