boot hangs after install 4.8
Toomas Aas
toomas.aas at raad.tartu.ee
Thu Jul 3 04:55:25 PDT 2003
> From: Rob Lahaye <lahaye at users.sourceforge.net>
> >>I have just installed FreeBSD 4.8 on a PC. Only FreeBSD, no other OS.
> >>The installation goes all well; I exit at the end and the PC boots.
> >>Immediately after the BIOS stuff, I get the first FreeBSD prompt:
> >>
> >>
> >> F1 FreeBSD
> >>
> >> Default: F1
Snip...
> FDISK Partition Editor (with "A = Use Entire Disk"):
> DISK Geometry: 21858 cyls/34 heads/54 sectors = 40131288 sectors (19595MB)
> Offset Size(ST) End Name PType Desc Subtype Flags
> 0 54 53 - 6 unused 0
> 54 40131234 40131287 ad0s1 3 freebsd 165 C
I suspect you need to set ad0s1 slice bootable (using S key in fdisk screen).
Flags should be CA, not simply C.
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