atom feed14 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-questionsFailed installation of FreeBSD 5.4
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MilscvaerAug 12, 2005 3:16 pm 
Greg BarniskisAug 12, 2005 4:04 pm 
dpkAug 12, 2005 5:07 pm 
MilscvaerAug 12, 2005 8:22 pm 
al...@scii.nlAug 12, 2005 8:35 pm 
MilscvaerAug 12, 2005 8:55 pm 
MilscvaerAug 12, 2005 10:13 pm 
MilscvaerAug 14, 2005 2:37 pm 
Gary W. SwearingenAug 14, 2005 3:50 pm 
MilscvaerAug 14, 2005 6:19 pm 
MilscvaerAug 14, 2005 6:21 pm 
MilscvaerAug 15, 2005 2:22 am 
MilscvaerAug 15, 2005 3:30 am 
Gary W. SwearingenAug 15, 2005 3:34 pm 
Subject:Failed installation of FreeBSD 5.4
From:Gary W. Swearingen (gar@opusnet.com)
Date:Aug 15, 2005 3:34:16 pm
List:org.freebsd.freebsd-questions

Milscvaer <mill@yahoo.com> writes:

that. There must be something wrong with the boot records that fdisk is not correcting.

I know friends who have had unuseable boot records as well and have to boot from floppies, Its not really a big inconvenience.

Spend some time with the boot, boot0cfg, fdisk, bsdlabel, manpages and the handbook. Note that fdisk can install either a DOS-type MBR (and set active part) or a FreeBSD-type MBR (use F1...). Also note that fdisk does not install the boot records that are probably not working for you: the ones at the start of your primary partition. These are installed by "bsdlabel" with -B option.