BSD4ALL
10-08-2005, 02:04 PM
I have seen several threads that seem like they may be related. Booting PC-BSD takes a minimum of two things, a boot loader, or something else to point to the kernel, and a kernel that is accessible. Here is a list of fixes that I have found in other threads:
1) Try GAG.
2) Turn on LBA in your BIOS for your hard drive.
3) Turn on Large blocks in your BIOS for SATA drives.
4) Completely wipe out the partition that you want to use for PC-BSD before installing it (fdisk - delete partition **WARNING, this will destroy your data)
5) Make sure the partition you are using for PC-BSD has enough room.
6) Select the option to use the whole hard drive if you can
If none of these work for you, you may be in the same boat that I am in. My problem may still be related to #2&3, but I do not have those options in my bios. I have no problems installing FreeBSD 5.4 on this computer, and it does boot. I have noticed something interesting though:
* I boot into partition magic 8 after installing FreeBSD, and the partition is healthy, it lists it as a FreeBSD partition.
* I boot into partition magic 8 after installing PC-BSD, and the partition has partition table errors.
I am pretty sure that I need a healthy partition to boot? Has anyone else noticed an error in partition magic? How about the people that have the "wrong" LBA setting in their BIOS, is their partition table bad?
BTW, I have five identical computers that I have been using for BSD/LINUX testing, I could send one to somebody if that would help, I would even donate one to Kris Moore :D
HP E-Vectra
PIII 933Mhz
40GB ATA 133 HDD (I am using the whole hard drive)
256MB PC133
1) Try GAG.
2) Turn on LBA in your BIOS for your hard drive.
3) Turn on Large blocks in your BIOS for SATA drives.
4) Completely wipe out the partition that you want to use for PC-BSD before installing it (fdisk - delete partition **WARNING, this will destroy your data)
5) Make sure the partition you are using for PC-BSD has enough room.
6) Select the option to use the whole hard drive if you can
If none of these work for you, you may be in the same boat that I am in. My problem may still be related to #2&3, but I do not have those options in my bios. I have no problems installing FreeBSD 5.4 on this computer, and it does boot. I have noticed something interesting though:
* I boot into partition magic 8 after installing FreeBSD, and the partition is healthy, it lists it as a FreeBSD partition.
* I boot into partition magic 8 after installing PC-BSD, and the partition has partition table errors.
I am pretty sure that I need a healthy partition to boot? Has anyone else noticed an error in partition magic? How about the people that have the "wrong" LBA setting in their BIOS, is their partition table bad?
BTW, I have five identical computers that I have been using for BSD/LINUX testing, I could send one to somebody if that would help, I would even donate one to Kris Moore :D
HP E-Vectra
PIII 933Mhz
40GB ATA 133 HDD (I am using the whole hard drive)
256MB PC133