On 2002-11-20 22:01, Andrew Y Ng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> > Check what BIOS thinks about the drive. If you haven't set the
> > disk type to "AUTO" and used the disk detection tools of BIOS when
> > you swapped disks and used the Windows disk, you'll have to rerun
> > the BIOS disk detection tool after changing the disks again.
>
> it's set to AUTO. I was able to kindda boot to the harddrive with a
> CDROM, but I then tried to reboot and got stuck in the Default: F1
> prompt again. =(
What happens if you do press F1? Just a beep?
The next thing you can try is to boot off a FreeBSD CD-ROM and
interrupt the loader as it starts to show the spinning character.
Instead of letting it boot from 0:fd(0,a)/kernel which is IIRC the
default kernel that the boot CD-ROM starts, press backspace to delete
0:fd(0,a)/kernel and write:
0:ad(0,a)/kernel
That should boot from the disk.
> I was thinking maybe I didn't shutdown my FreeBSD correctly, I did a
> reboot and just turned it off after the system restarted. I did that
> coz if i do shutdown the PC Card doesn't turn off when i hit the
> power switch.
If the MBR of the disk is messed up (I can't guess why that would
happen, but whatever) you can always write a new boot0 block to the
disk with boot0cfg(8):
# boot0cfg -B -v /dev/ad0
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