Hi everyone, I just finished installing FreeBSD 6 RELEASE on my Toshiba Tecra A4 laptop and the installation was fine, however, when I rebooted the machine, I don't get the boot loader screen as if the machine can not see my drive! I tried the reinstalling and ensured that I set the slice to be bootable but that didn't change anything. Not sure if this is a common issue with FreeBSD 6 on Toshiba laptops but I'm still looking around Sincerely, Yousef Raffah Senior Systems Administrator SSIS - The Savola Group -- Aren't you using Firefox? Get it at getfirefox.com yousef.raffah.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20060327/b31aada0/attachment.pgp
--- Original Message ---> Hi everyone, > > I just finished installing FreeBSD 6 RELEASE on my Toshiba > Tecra A4 > laptop and the installation was fine, however, when I rebooted > the > machine, I don't get the boot loader screen as if the machine > can not > see my drive! I tried the reinstalling and ensured that I set > the slice > to be bootable but that didn't change anything. > > Not sure if this is a common issue with FreeBSD 6 on Toshiba > laptops but > I'm still looking around >I'm sorry if this is not the right Mailing list to post but I hope someone can point me or at least give some hints to look for as I'm almost clueless. I see no reason why it can't boot of my drive after installing FreeBSD, although this is not my first BSD install, but is there anything specific that must be set during the install (I doubt)? I have erased all the slices on the drive then pressed on "A" to create the FreeBSD slice Automatically (it created three slices and one of them is ad0s1 and I have no clue what are the other two for), then I Auto labeled the slices from the installer and continued the installation. :( -- Sincerely, Yousef Raffah
On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 06:54 +0530, Joseph Koshy wrote:> yr> I see no reason why it can't boot of my drive after > yr> installing FreeBSD, although this is not my first BSD > > Check if there is a disk geometry mismatch. Can you boot > from a CD and access the hard-disk in 'fixit' mode? >Thank you Joseph for the reply and I would like to assure you that Yes, I am able to boot from a CD and access the hard-disk in fixit mode by mounting it under /mnt like this: # mount /dev/ad0s1 /mnt I can see all the folders in there were created yesterday, which is correct! Any other hints to look for? Sincerely, Yousef Raffah Senior Systems Administrator SSIS - The Savola Group -- Aren't you using Firefox? Get it at getfirefox.com yousef.raffah.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20060328/2025bbad/attachment.pgp