PCBSD BOOT PROBLEM OR BOOT LOADER PROBLEM

[Amigamerlin]

Hi to all,
My good friend tryed to install PC-BSD on a HD. This HD the first time was SCSI, the second time was IDE.
The problem is that in both case he was not able to boot the PC. Boot loader apper with F1: ??? and F5: Drive1

Pressing F1 winxp start without problem; pressing F5 PC-BSD doesn't start.

No problem during the installation!. All proceeded witout problem on both HD but after the installation PC-BSD wouldn't start.

I tried to use GAG too doing a Fixmbr from the console mode of Winxp CD's and reinstalling PCBSD without install boot loader on the MBR.
Gag didn't recognized the partition of PC-BSD instead gag has had no problem recognizing and starting the partition that contain winxp.

Any suggestion ?

Please help me!

[popey]

From the FreeBSD handbook
Important: If you are installing FreeBSD on a drive other than your first, then the FreeBSD boot manager needs to be installed on both drives.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO885 ... steps.html (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-steps.html)

[bsdguy]

I have the same problem.......

I installed the boot loader on drive 1

But the partition of PC-BSD is in drive 3.

Someone said the bootloader needs to be on drive 3 as well.....

Even if that's the case it is slightly annoying that it was never mentioned in the install and even Linux Distros have no problem working this way.

I think I should have kept GRUB installed.

Anyway, does anyone have details on how to get our setup working?

MBR on drive 1

PC-BSD installed on drive 3.

[Quantux]

Install the bootloader on the second drive as well (after or even during install)?

My setup goes like this:

disk1 - 250G Server 2003
disk2 - 80G split into 3 parts.
20G NTFS partition
20G Vista Beta1
35G Empty Partition

So the install went fine, I chose the empty part on disk 2, and to install bootloader on MBR, and install completed. Now when I boot I get:

F1-???
F5-Disk1

Both options take me to the windows vista bootloader...

Any Ideas on how to fix?

[Quantux]

Using a program from http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm I was able to easily add an option to my windows bootloader that pointed to the partition that pc-bsd was installed on, reboot, choose option, works great. Using it now, in fact.

[bsdguy]

Install the bootloader on the second drive as well (after or even during install)?

My setup goes like this:

disk1 - 250G Server 2003
disk2 - 80G split into 3 parts.
20G NTFS partition
20G Vista Beta1
35G Empty Partition

So the install went fine, I chose the empty part on disk 2, and to install bootloader on MBR, and install completed. Now when I boot I get:

F1-???
F5-Disk1

Both options take me to the windows vista bootloader...

Any Ideas on how to fix?

You're not the only one to have this (exact same) problem. I swear BSD bootloader is the worst ever. I tried everything to fix it after reading documentation but it didn't work.

What does work is a nice GRUB boot CD or just install GRUB itself to FreeBSD

I think FreeBSD should toss their bootloader or at least make GRUB an option because it is horrible and archaic

[Solarin]

Actually, I think I read somewhere that the FreeBSD folks want to get a new bootloader into version 6 before they release it...

[L1mP]

0.7.8 won't boot anymore after reinstall, 0.8.0 and 0.8.1 didn't boot at all.
It's easier to install and get up FreeBSD.

The failure i have while booting is "can't load kernel"

Normally i think PcBSD has a lot of opportunity's to become a good alternative.

But then it must boot, and i don't find the reason why it doesn't.

[L1mP]

boot problems solved.
0.8.1 up and running.
Can not understand why it don't boot from ad0s1a.....