Can't boot FreeBSD.

Paul Macdonald paul at ifdnrg.com
Mon Aug 10 17:06:03 UTC 2015



On 09/08/2015 23:46, reg at dwf.com wrote:
> I have done what appears to be a clean install of FreeBSD 10.1,
> but on the 'reboot' the intel boot falls thru to the ethernet
> boot, as if there isn't any info in the boot block.
>
> I have tried this install on two different disks on this machine
> with the same results (changing the BIOS to get to the 2nd disk).
>
> There was once a copy of PCBSD running on this machine, so its
> got to be possible to get FreeBSD up, but I just seem to be
> waisting time trying to get it up.
>
> Any thoughts?
> I would really like to get FreeBSD up on this box.

hitting f11 or equivalent for your bios to get to the boot menu, and 
trying to select boot disks manually may be worth a try


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