Re: New FreeBSD User | HP Doesn't Boot

2011-10-09 Thread Armin Pirkovitsch
On 10/09/11 01:11, Michael Starr wrote: Hello Everyone, I am a brand new FreeBSD user with minimal Unix knowledge. I have "successfully" installed FreeBSD on a computer dedicated to the operating system. However, after rebooting, the machine can't boot, nor get into BIOS. I installed the sys

Re: New FreeBSD User | HP Doesn't Boot

2011-10-08 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 8:51 PM, Colin Barnabas wrote: > Are you able to boot from the usb you used to install? If yes, > then my first instinct would be to scrub the disk and > start over. Hopefully what ever is going on is just a freak anomaly. > > If you can boot the from the usb stick, go to t

Re: New FreeBSD User | HP Doesn't Boot

2011-10-08 Thread Colin Barnabas
Are you able to boot from the usb you used to install? If yes, then my first instinct would be to scrub the disk and start over. Hopefully what ever is going on is just a freak anomaly. If you can boot the from the usb stick, go to the fixit shell and run dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 bs=1k That w

Re: New FreeBSD User | HP Doesn't Boot

2011-10-08 Thread Colin Barnabas
The chances that you have inadvertently altered your BIOS are quite slim. What does the machine display when you try to boot? On Sat, Oct 08, 2011 at 04:11:31PM -0700, Michael Starr wrote: > Hello Everyone, > >I am a brand new FreeBSD user with minimal Unix knowledge. I have > "successfully"

New FreeBSD User | HP Doesn't Boot

2011-10-08 Thread Michael Starr
Hello Everyone, I am a brand new FreeBSD user with minimal Unix knowledge. I have "successfully" installed FreeBSD on a computer dedicated to the operating system. However, after rebooting, the machine can't boot, nor get into BIOS. I installed the system from a bootable USB stick. I would try