[SDBUG] Missing boot loader ...

[Raymundo M. Vega]

On 19:24, Tue 13 Jun 06, Al Plant wrote:
> I installed FreeBSD 6.1 on 2 different HD's 3.5 GB. When the reboot is 
> supposed to happen the Boot loader doesnot come up. Is there a way to 
> fix this from a single user prompt or any other way? I have never had 
> this happen to FreeBSD and I have been installing it on many boxes since 
>  version 3.4.
> 
> This box is for a firewall on a small office  lan with only a minimal 
> FreeBSD 6.1 installed to run the firewall. It is an HP box Vectra 486/66.
> 
> I have looked at several how to's in my FreeBSD reference books, but 
> most say put a dos partition on the drive as maybe the bios need to see 
> the parameters more clearly. Any Ideas besides that? I do have a box 
> that cant run above FreeBSD 4.11 as a print server in an installation. 
> But FreeBSD 5* would not install on it at all. This installs but won't boot.
> 
> Al Plant
> 
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check man fdisk...in particular the flag -b

raymundo