From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 2 18:44:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA28083 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 18:44:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA27432 for ; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 18:36:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id MAA17804; Wed, 3 Apr 1996 12:28:43 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199604030258.MAA17804@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Installation Problems with FreeBSD 2.1 To: kue@zerberus.hai.siemens.co.at (Werner Kuehnert) Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 12:28:43 +0930 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9604020720.AA26762@zerberus> from "Werner Kuehnert" at Apr 2, 96 09:20:26 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Werner Kuehnert stands accused of saying: > Last weekend I tried to install FreeBSD 2.1 on my computer and had > only little success. I have the distribution on CD and everything > works fine (booting, partitioning, labeling, choice of packages and > so on) up to the point of first reboot, which didn't work because > there was no bootable partition left :-( Odd. If you were installing to a disk other than the first, I'd have expected this, but that's just Weird. > The partitions are as follows : > Drive ID0 : > #1: Primary DOS 127MB > #2: Extended DOS 64MB 1 log. drive > #3: Non-DOS (0xA5) 665MB > Drive ID1 : > #1: Non-DOS (0xA5) 630MB > Drive ID5 : > #1: Extended-DOS 349MB 2 log. drives > #2: Non-DOS (0xA5) 350MB > I tried to install the system onto partition #3 / drive ID0. When I > boor from a DOS-disk the second (extended partition) is gone. I > tried to install the boot selector program supplied with freebsd. Is the partition "gone", or just "not visible"? ie. does fdisk still see it? Is there an empty space there? > Werner -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[