Bug 24319

Summary:	FreeBSD refuses to boot up.
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	Mtaki_kat <Mtaki_kat>
Component:	misc	Assignee:	freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Unspecified
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Mtaki_kat 2001-01-14 07:10:00 UTC

.. I install FreeBSD, there's no problem.. I get to the bootloader.. It says press F1 for DOS, F2 for FreeBSD.. And when I press F2, I just get a beep and it wont load.

Comment 1 bill fumerola freebsd_committer

2001-01-14 07:12:31 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Please e-mail questions@freebsd.org with a lot more detail.

Comment 2 Salvo Bartolotta 2001-01-14 09:41:32 UTC

>Number:         24319
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       FreeBSD refuses to boot up.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Jan 13 23:10:00 PST 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Charles Lefave
>Release:        4.0
>Organization:
MtakiSoft Webwork
>Environment:
>Description:
.. I install FreeBSD, there's no problem.. I get to the bootloader..=20
It says press F1 for DOS, F2 for FreeBSD.. And when I press F2, I just=20
get a beep and it wont load.



Dear Charles Lefave,

<dumb question>
Surely your "/" partition is **below** the deadly (BIOS) limit of ~=20
8.4 GB ?
</dumb question>

If it lies **past** the first 8.4 GB, I am afraid you won't be able to=20
boot. You'll have to rearrange things in order to meet the=20
aforementioned BIOS "boundary value condition" :-)

Best regards/cordialement,
Salvo