You may need to do an upgrade reinstall. It sounds like the boot block is
foobar. If you reinstall the same version using the upgrade option, that
should take care of the problem.
-Derek
At 01:38 AM 6/11/2006, Sean M. wrote:
I just did my first ever bit of hardware hacking--salvaging a 6GB HDD
from a useless computer and installing it as a slave--and went and put
FreeBSD on it and a 3151MB partition on the master drive, which already
had Windows 2000 Professional SP1. Here is how I chopped up the disks:
ad0s1: FAT32 W2K (I have since converted to NTFS)
ad0s2: /, swap, /tmp, /etc, and /var
ad1s1: /usr
The problem is that I can't start FreeBSD. When I get to the boot
loader, I see:
F1 DOS
F2 FreeBSD
F5 Disk 1
Pressing starts the typical hardware listing, then I see:
Manual root filesystem specification
...
mountroot>
And the crux of the problem is that I can't type anything because the
keyboard is frozen! What can I do here?
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