> Do you get the FreeBSD boot menu ? > > Pramod Venugopal > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
No. The BIOS clears the screen and loads the boot sector, then nothing. > 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. ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"