Re: no boot/loader

2008-08-08 Thread Derek Ragona
At 07:11 PM 8/8/2008, acmeinc wrote: Excellent! I will try this among the other things mentioned when I get back home. Final note, what would this BIOS MBR setting look like normally, or an idea of where to look in the CMOS. THanks A lot of BIOS's have a setting for boot virus prevention, o

Re: no boot/loader

2008-08-08 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 8 Aug 2008 17:00:54 -0700 (PDT), acmeinc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Check things? Which things should I be checking for? And where should I be > checking them, to be more specific, which optoin should I choose within > sysinstall to check the things? Be sure to write your settings.

Re: no boot/loader

2008-08-08 Thread acmeinc
Excellent! I will try this among the other things mentioned when I get back home. Final note, what would this BIOS MBR setting look like normally, or an idea of where to look in the CMOS. THanks Derek Ragona wrote: > > At 07:00 PM 8/8/2008, acmeinc wrote: > >>Check things? Which things sho

Re: no boot/loader

2008-08-08 Thread Derek Ragona
At 07:00 PM 8/8/2008, acmeinc wrote: Check things? Which things should I be checking for? And where should I be checking them, to be more specific, which optoin should I choose within sysinstall to check the things? I am reading on another forum the installation is incorrect and to try again

Re: no boot/loader

2008-08-08 Thread acmeinc
Check things? Which things should I be checking for? And where should I be checking them, to be more specific, which optoin should I choose within sysinstall to check the things? I am reading on another forum the installation is incorrect and to try again, however I have tried many times. D

Re: no boot/loader

2008-08-08 Thread Derek Ragona
At 04:42 PM 8/8/2008, acmeinc wrote: No /boot/loader no /boot/kernel/kernel I isntalled FreeBSD 7.0 with the defaults for partiioning. I am using one hard drive in which I followed with the ASQ (auto, tag for boot, quit) command. I choose the standard boot loader option. I installed through the

Re: no /boot/loader - after installation

2007-07-23 Thread Derek Ragona
At 02:06 PM 7/23/2007, John Clement wrote: So I got a copy of boot-only 6.2 onto cd and went back into the bios and changed a few options: LBA mode: off Multi-sector transfers: auto Fast PIO: auto 32 bit transfer mode: on Ultra DMA: auto then ran the 6.2 install using dangerously dedicated whic

Re: no /boot/loader - after installation

2007-07-23 Thread John Clement
So I got a copy of boot-only 6.2 onto cd and went back into the bios and changed a few options: LBA mode: off Multi-sector transfers: auto Fast PIO: auto 32 bit transfer mode: on Ultra DMA: auto then ran the 6.2 install using dangerously dedicated which went fine and then on reboot now it comes

Re: no /boot/loader - after installation

2007-07-19 Thread John Clement
The burner's been playing up recently so I've just been using the copy of 6.1 I've got. Maybe I'll get a copy of 6.2 burnt at work to try after the weekend. The locked MBR hadn't occured to me, but having checked, unfortunately it wasn't that. So back to the drawing board. If anyone's got any

Re: no /boot/loader - after installation

2007-07-19 Thread Derek Ragona
At 03:31 AM 7/19/2007, John Clement wrote: I'm installing 6.1 on an HP Vectra VL420, I've been in the BIOS to set the C/H/S as per what the install reports (I've tried an 80GB Seagate and a 250GB WD), the install all seems to go fine. I've tried the FreeBSD boot manager, a standard MBR and even

Re: No /boot/loader

2004-06-14 Thread freebsd
Hi all. A little over a month ago I posted the following: > I just installed 4.9 on a 8 x 4.3GB SCSI disk AMI MegaRAID array (RAID 5, > 30GB). The card's a HP NetRAID (aka AMI/LSI Enterprise 1200 or Series > 428). I set up slices as I have previously with 30GB+ IDE drives: > > 1GBswap > 29