I've just installed the above on an older SMP Pentium 100Mhz SCSI system.
Its installed, but I'm having a problem getting it to boot correctly. When it gets to the Boot Prompt it lists.
F1: FreeBSD
F5: Disk 1
If I hit F1 (or leave it long enough) it carrys on doing this through Disk 2,3,0, then gets to the boot prompt.
I can get the system to boot by entering 0:(1,a) but this is undesirable and introduces the NLIST problem mentioned in the FAQ, and 50% of the time it fails to mount the root directory and again have to manually type in the obvious.( /dev/da0s1a )
I've used /stand/sysinstall to re-install the boot loader a few times, done some experiments with boot0cfg & disklabel but don't seem to be any closer to fixing it.
Any ideas?
Jason
Your fsize bsize bps/cpg look very odd and they should never be 0 to all. For example:
Jason I've got a similar problem - I get presented with the freebsd bootloader options,
F1: FreeBSD
F5: Disk 1
and when I hit f1 nothing happens (except it bleeps sharply) - however if I hit f5 and THEN hit f1, all is fine and freeBSD boots up. I'm thinking about reinstalling anyway and playing around a bit, just to get more familiar with this slicing business(!).
After some playing and reinstalling a few times, I found that installing a small DOS partition (10mb) on my first IDE drive actually seemed to resolve my booting problems (I have two 1.6Gb HDD, both master on respective IDE controllers).
The other option which I've just read about might be to consider using a /boot.config file containing the string you have to use to boot successfully from the boot prompt ('1:ad(0,a)/kernel' for me).
I found this info reading through the installation sections of the FAQ and handbook.