Re: boot problems / redirection unexpected

2008-01-21 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, 2008/1/21, Manolis Kiagias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > > hello, > > > > Trying to boot 6.3. There seems to be some problem with /etc/rc.subr > > it gives me some message about redirection unexpected. I am trying to > > copy this file form a back-up to /etc but when I do

Re: boot problems / redirection unexpected

2008-01-21 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: hello, Trying to boot 6.3. There seems to be some problem with /etc/rc.subr it gives me some message about redirection unexpected. I am trying to copy this file form a back-up to /etc but when I do that it says: read-only file system. I should add that I am operating a

boot problems / redirection unexpected

2008-01-21 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
hello, Trying to boot 6.3. There seems to be some problem with /etc/rc.subr it gives me some message about redirection unexpected. I am trying to copy this file form a back-up to /etc but when I do that it says: read-only file system. I should add that I am operating as root (could not go into mu

Re: Dual boot problems

2007-02-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 12:04:57PM -0500, Jeff Palmer wrote: > > Do you really need to use Grub to replace the FreeBSD MBR? > >I haven't had my hands on Vista yet - in no hurry either - > >but I think it should boot Vista OK. I've use it for several > >other MS versions from Win-95 - Win 2K - X

Re: Dual boot problems

2007-02-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
Howdy, > Hello, > This weekend I purchased a laptop with a core2duo processor. The laptop > came with windows Vista premier. Due to some applications that I require, > removing Vista and installing FreeBSD is not an issue. (Please leave the > Vista/Microsoft flames at the door) > > When I install

Re: Dual boot problems (RESOLVED)

2007-02-14 Thread RW
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 19:46:18 -0800 Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > RW wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 21:51:52 -0500 (EST) > > "Questions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>> On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:44:03 -0500 (EST) > >>> "Questions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> > >>> > Howev

Re: Dual boot problems (RESOLVED)

2007-02-13 Thread Garrett Cooper
RW wrote: On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 21:51:52 -0500 (EST) "Questions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:44:03 -0500 (EST) "Questions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: However, when I try FreeBSD/amd64, grub won't compile (it's architecture is forced to i386 only in the Makefile. I haven

Re: Dual boot problems (RESOLVED)

2007-02-13 Thread RW
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 21:51:52 -0500 (EST) "Questions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:44:03 -0500 (EST) > > "Questions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> However, when I try FreeBSD/amd64, grub won't compile (it's > >> architecture is forced to i386 only in the Makefile

Re: Dual boot problems (RESOLVED)

2007-02-13 Thread Questions
> On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:44:03 -0500 (EST) > "Questions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> However, when I try FreeBSD/amd64, grub won't compile (it's >> architecture is forced to i386 only in the Makefile. I haven't dug >> into why, but I'm confident there is a reason. Obviously, grub >> becomes

Re: Dual boot problems

2007-02-13 Thread Questions
> On 2/13/07, Questions <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> >> This weekend I purchased a laptop with a core2duo processor. The laptop >> came with windows Vista premier. Due to some applications that I >> require, >> removing Vista and installing FreeBSD is not an issue. (Please leave the >

Re: Dual boot problems

2007-02-13 Thread RW
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:44:03 -0500 (EST) "Questions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However, when I try FreeBSD/amd64, grub won't compile (it's > architecture is forced to i386 only in the Makefile. I haven't dug > into why, but I'm confident there is a reason. Obviously, grub > becomes a non-opt

Re: Dual boot problems

2007-02-13 Thread pete wright
On 2/13/07, Questions <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, This weekend I purchased a laptop with a core2duo processor. The laptop came with windows Vista premier. Due to some applications that I require, removing Vista and installing FreeBSD is not an issue. (Please leave the Vista/Microsoft flam

Dual boot problems

2007-02-13 Thread Questions
Hello, This weekend I purchased a laptop with a core2duo processor. The laptop came with windows Vista premier. Due to some applications that I require, removing Vista and installing FreeBSD is not an issue. (Please leave the Vista/Microsoft flames at the door) When I install FreeBSD/i386, I ca

boot problems with FreeBSD, WindowsXP (and Linux)

2006-02-14 Thread B _
Hello, I've been having some problems with my computer arising out of an install of FreeBSD 5.4 which I can't seem to solve. First of all, I started with an 80 GB HD partitioned as such: c: 20 GB NTFS d: 20 GB NTFS e: 40 GB FAT I first installed a copy of Ubuntu Linux 4.1 onto the Windows "d:"

Re: Sparc dual boot problems

2006-01-06 Thread Robert Slade
On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 03:47, jasonharback wrote: > Here's the situation > > > > The machine is a SUN ULTRA 5 and I have 4 IDE devices. I am new to SUN > hardware I know much more about PC's. The first device primary master is the > cdrom which Solaris 10 and FreeBSD were successfully install

Re: Sparc dual boot problems

2006-01-06 Thread Reko Turja
- Original Message - From: "jasonharback" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 5:47 AM Subject: Sparc dual boot problems During the partition process it says I will have the option to configure the boot loader latter. Right now I can't boot

Sparc dual boot problems

2006-01-06 Thread jasonharback
Here's the situation The machine is a SUN ULTRA 5 and I have 4 IDE devices. I am new to SUN hardware I know much more about PC's. The first device primary master is the cdrom which Solaris 10 and FreeBSD were successfully installed from. Currently Solaris 10 which is the primary slave is t

Re: boot problems

2005-03-23 Thread stheg olloydson
it was said: >hello , i have already the sameproblem when i boot with freebsd >5.3 since i have had a power cut .The message of the error is : > >error 16 Iba 191 >No /boot/loader > >FreeBSD/i386 boot >Default: 0:ad(0,a)/kernel >boot: error 16 Iba 191 >No /kernel > >I have tried boot : /kernel.old

boot problems

2005-03-23 Thread cell
hello , i have already the sameproblem when i boot with freebsd 5.3 since i have had a power cut .The message of the error is : error 16 Iba 191 No /boot/loader FreeBSD/i386 boot Default: 0:ad(0,a)/kernel boot: error 16 Iba 191 No /kernel I have tried boot : /kernel.old but i have No /kernel.o

Re: Boot problems afther reinstall windows

2005-03-17 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 07:05:58PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > > timeout=10 > > > > default=c:\freebsd.bin > > > > [operating systems] > > > > multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP > > > > Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn > > > > c:\freebsd.bin="FreeBS

Re: Boot problems afther reinstall windows

2005-03-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > > timeout=10 > > > default=c:\freebsd.bin > > > [operating systems] > > > multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP > > > Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn > > > c:\freebsd.bin="FreeBSD 5" > > > > > > This works for me. I still wonder why the stuff below didn't

Re: Boot problems afther reinstall windows

2005-03-15 Thread Alex de Kruijff
> > On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 02:12:46AM +, Jason Henson wrote: > > > What is in your windows boot.ini file? > > > > > > > > > On 03/14/05 11:13:49, Alex de Kruijff wrote: > > > >Hi, > > > > > > > >I've recently reinstalled windows. Windows removes the MBR as you > > > >know. > > > >So ather I

boot problems

2005-03-15 Thread cell
hello , i have already the sameproblem when i boot with freebsd 5.3 since i have had a power cut .The message of the error is : error 16 Iba 191 No /boot/loader FreeBSD/i386 boot Default: 0:ad(0,a)/kernel boot: error 16 Iba 191 No /kernel I have tried boot : /kernel.old but i have No /kernel.o

Re: Boot problems afther reinstall windows

2005-03-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Windows was able to boot afhter I installed it. I never touched > boot.ini. The content would have been: > > [boot loader] > timeout=30 > default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS > [operating systems] > multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP > Profession

Re: Boot problems afther reinstall windows

2005-03-15 Thread Alex de Kruijff
Windows was able to boot afhter I installed it. I never touched boot.ini. The content would have been: [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /NoEx

Re: Boot problems afther reinstall windows

2005-03-14 Thread Jason Henson
What is in your windows boot.ini file? On 03/14/05 11:13:49, Alex de Kruijff wrote: Hi, I've recently reinstalled windows. Windows removes the MBR as you know. So ather I installed it I set partion 1 (FreeBSD) active and rebooted. Then I followed the handbook and did fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 ad

Boot problems afther reinstall windows

2005-03-14 Thread Alex de Kruijff
Hi, I've recently reinstalled windows. Windows removes the MBR as you know. So ather I installed it I set partion 1 (FreeBSD) active and rebooted. Then I followed the handbook and did fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 ad0. Now I get the orginal screen afther booting. Only it beeps when I press F2 (Windows).

FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE kernel boot problems

2004-11-30 Thread Mike Brown
First the system specs: * Motherboard: SuperMicro 370SED (manuf. in 2000; see [1]) * CPU: Intel Pentium III 933 MHz * RAM: 384 MB (128 MB PC100; 256 MB PC133) * network: * Linksys LNE100TX Etherfast 10/100 (device dc0) * Linksys LNE100TX Etherfast 10/100 (device dc1; unused for now)

RE: 5.3-BETAx Boot Problems

2004-09-30 Thread Pratt, Benjamin E.
: Pratt, Benjamin E. Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 5.3-BETAx Boot Problems On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Pratt, Benjamin E. wrote: > Hello, I am still trying to get FreeBSD Beta to work but am running into > problems when my system boots. The boot problem appears to be occurring

Re: 5.3-BETAx Boot Problems

2004-09-29 Thread Emanuel Strobl
#x27;t have time yet to look at -current if this bug is known and if applicable create a PR. -Mano > > When 5.2.1 or 6.0-CURRENT are installed on the system everything boots > fine > and the next line is: > > Mounted root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a. > > I looked at /var/log/

Re: 4.9 install-boot problems

2004-02-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > installed 4.9, when i boot i get the message: "panic:contigmalloc1: > size must not be 0" and that's as far as it goes. i dual boot with > linux, the mbr is not a problemm since i can select either os > without problems. anybody know what the problem is and a fix? > a

Re: pxe boot problems

2004-02-18 Thread Mipam
In loader.rc i did unset acpi and now it gets a little further: after loading mfsroot (rotating /), after that i see: no such file or directory Then press enter to boot kernel now the kernel is located /boot/kernel/kernel when i press enter all i see is a / and the system hangs. Any hints? B

pxe boot problems

2004-02-18 Thread Mipam
Hi, Im trying to install freebsd on a system (i386 system) without cdrom or floppy. I created a loader.rc and the kernel (used from /boot/kernel) and I created an mfsroot from the mfsroot.flp which can be downloaded from freebsd.org. The kernel is loaded, then mfsroot is loaded. my loader.rc echo

4.9 install-boot problems

2004-02-17 Thread ivaldes2
installed 4.9, when i boot i get the message: "panic:contigmalloc1: size must not be 0" and that's as far as it goes. i dual boot with linux, the mbr is not a problemm since i can select either os without problems. anybody know what the problem is and a fix? appreciate ur help,thanks. incidental

sun ultra 5 boot problems

2004-02-09 Thread Evan Sayer
I have successfully installed freebsd on 9.1 gb hdd in my ultra 5 (freebsd had no errors during install.) However when i say probe-ide at the obp it doesn't even find the disk, which would explain why it can't boot of course. Any help would be appreciated. -Thanks

Boot problems with SCSI card

2003-07-31 Thread Leonhard Wimmer
Hi, I can't boot my FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE (both with the stock kernel and with a self-compiled kernel), if my AdvanSys SCSI Host Adapter (ISA, ABP5140) is installed. The problem was also there while installing FreeBSD, but I simply removed the SCSI card during the installation. Without the card ev