Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 16:43:41 +0700 (GMT) From: Jarungwit BOONPERM <bjarungw@bunga.pn.psu.ac.th> To: David Schultz <vvortex1@home.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Problem about FreeBSD-4.2. Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.31.0101121533230.24167-100000@bunga.pn.psu.ac.th> In-Reply-To: <001601c07bba$e2731420$0100a8c0@mshome.net>
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Dear David, Sorry to distrub you again and again. I still have problem. When I installed FreeBSD-4.2 on "HP Netserver e60 intel PentitiumIII 550Mhz" it has message below when I reboot system. F1 FreeBSD F5 Drive 1 Default: F1 I don't to show this messages. But when install on another PC (HP Vectra VL 166), this messages not occur. Boths machines I select same option when I installed that show below. custom install (*) None Leave the Master Boot Record untouched Distributions ---> 8 User About "HP NetServer e60 intel PentitiumIII 550Mhz" I ever installed FreeBSD-4.1.1 before I installed FreeBSD-4.2 on last December 2000. When I try to press "F5", it shows messages below. Invalid partition No /boot/loader Do you have anything to advice me again ? Thank you very much. regards, Jarungwit. On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, David Schultz wrote: > > But when reboot computer It show message below. > > F1 FreeBSD > > F5 Drive 1 > > Default: F1 > > If the Boot Manager is, in fact, being installed, then the problem most > likely is not with FreeBSD. (Nevertheless, it is not possible to install the > boot manager by selecting a "Standard" boot record during installation > unless 4.2 has some bizarre bug that I'm not aware of.) > > I assume that you have some other operating system that you're trying to > boot on your first hard drive and it isn't showing up. First of all, I > should note that if the OS is on a different hard drive, you need to press > F5 to see it. The OS also needs to be on a visible, bootable partition as > well, and I'm pretty sure that FreeBSD's boot manager does not support OS's > in extended partitions. Unless you have more than four operating systems on > your computer, this should not be an issue. > > If you do have some odd setup like an extended partition, you may need a > more advanced boot manager. I personally like Ranish Partition Manager > [http://www.users.intercom.com/~ranish/part/]. The source would need much > modification to work under FreeBSD, so you will need a bootable DOS diskette > to install it. Partition Magic also comes with a good (albeit non-free) boot > manager, but it requires Windows to install and a DOS partition to hold its > massive, clunky GUI. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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