Actually Beastie that did help, thank you. It wasn't exactly the same problem that had occured in your link but I repeated the installation and played around with the cylinder 'settings'. I did manage to get the machine booting again. This seems to me like a bug in the FreeBSD boot manager as...
Well I've had to wipe off the entire drive. Grub didn't correct anything, fixmbr didn't work. I had to format the drive in Gparted and create a brand new ms-dos partition table. Just for checking I reinstalled FreeBSD (minimal this time) and again installed the boot manager to the MBR. FreeBSD's...
This is the problem. I ran fixmbr first and I still cannot boot my PC. The machine was running fine immediately before I installed FreeBSD. The installation went without errors, I installed the FreeBSD boot manager and then nothing would boot up. Just this flashing cursor. I can run Linux...
I can see the FreeBSD slice with an Ubuntu 9.10 livecd and the Windows partition is still there too. When I use the Windows recovery mode it can see the Windows partition too. Gparted reports the FreeBSD slice as unknown, and I have tried installing a minimal Ubuntu and Debian install at the end...
Hi,
I'm relatively new to FreeBSD and have just tried to install the 32bit version on my machine. There was already a Windows XP installation on it.
The installation procedure went fine and I selected to install the FreeBSD boot manager to the MBR. When I rebooted I got a single line...
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