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Help, Attempting To Boot Freebsd-6 <solved> - Cant even get past the boot screen :(

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Help, Attempting To Boot Freebsd-6 <solved> - Cant even get past the boot screen :(

qwijibow
Nov 9 2005, 01:41 AM
Ive downloaded the latest FreeBSD-6.0 for amd64.
All MD5's passed.

Hardware...

CPU: Athlon64 3400+ Socket 754
Ram: 2 * 512 Kingston ValueRam DDR400 (DoubleSided)
Chipset: nForce3-250
Motherboard: Asus K8N (Bios 1006.001)

Partiton setup:
1: Windows - 20Gb (FAT32)
2: Linux root (XFS)
3: FreeBSD
3a: FreeBSD root
3b: FreeBSD swap
4: Linux Swap
5: boot (reiserFS) HoldsGRUB filesand Linux kernel.

Attempting to boot with Grub using both of the following commands... (from grub)

CODE

root (hd0,2,a)
kernel /boot/loader
boot


CODE

rootnoverify (hd0,2)
chainloader +1
boot


Both give the same result.

The FreeBSD boot sceen shows, and presents several boot options including (Boot FreeBSD (default) single user, Safe mode, etc etc.

and a timer counts down from 9.

when it hits 0, or when i select any of the boot option numbers, the system freeses.

It will not boot.

the FreeBSD website said my hardware is supported, the install process went fine..
i dont know what do do ?

is this a bug ?

 

 

 


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qwijibow
Nov 9 2005, 03:08 AM
Managed to boot with...

Seems there must be a mistake in the FreeBSD documentation.
The correct Code to boot BSD is....

CODE

rootnoverify (hd0,2)
makeactive
chainloader +1
boot


the makeactive line was missing.

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Habble
Jul 19 2008, 02:36 PM
lol so much complecated stuff like below i dont even know what half of it is for lol i thought i was good at computers but i clearly am not rofl can some one give me a definission on what they all mean really great full lol


1: Windows - 20Gb (FAT32)
2: Linux root (XFS)
3: FreeBSD
3a: FreeBSD root
3b: FreeBSD swap
4: Linux Swap
5: boot (reiserFS) HoldsGRUB filesand Linux kernel.

Cheers Jay

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