installs fine, but won't boot.

[Vulpes Velox]

On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 06:25:32 -0800 (PST)
NevTide <nevtide at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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.

This is probally not the case, but when you got it would it boot
windows properly and if not will it boot properly if you hit
ctl+alt+del?

I've seen hard drives get skipped over before because of some what
slow spin up times.