new 6.1 install will not boot

[Pramod Venugopal]

Do you get the FreeBSD boot menu ?

Pramod Venugopal
pramod at dvnull.org



On Aug 14, 2006, at 7:24 PM, Perry Hutchison wrote:

> I've just installed FreeBSD 6.1 on a Dell Pentium III, and I must have
> done something wrong -- or missed a step -- somewhere along the way.
>
> When trying to boot, I do not get even as far as the situation
> described in sec. 4.2.5 of the installation instructions.  The system
> hangs, with a completely blank screen and the curson on (I think) the
> second line, immediately after the BIOS loads the boot record from the
> FreeBSD partition.  Keyboard input is ignored except for CtrlAltDel,
> which reboots and hangs again the same way.  Booting a Windows 98 CD
> and running fdisk confirms that the FreeBSD partition is active.
>
> I'm not even getting anywhere trying to read the documentation:
> I can still boot from the FreeBSD CD, but if I try to view the HTML
> docs from the Doc menu it says this can only be done after the system
> is installed.  (The system *has* been installed, it just won't boot!)
>
> Is there any way to recover from this?  Even if I were to start
> completely over I would have no clue what to do differently.
> If it were a Linux installation I would try booting from floppy,
> but I did not see any chance during the FreeBSD installation to
> create a boot floppy.
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