From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 10 12:19:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA26833 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 10 May 1998 12:19:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA26824 for ; Sun, 10 May 1998 12:19:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA02046; Sun, 10 May 1998 12:19:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 12:19:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: L2Hl2l cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation question In-Reply-To: <3c148221.35552dae@aol.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 10 May 1998, L2Hl2l wrote: > Dear user, > I am in question about installing FreeBSD kernel ver. 2.2.6. I'm trying to > install this using 2 separate Hard Disks. Both of which are IDE. I know the > boot record can only be held on my master drive which is of course, Drive 0 > (Label C:) I installed FreeBSD on drive 01 which is my second fixed drive > with one primary partition (I am using the whole disk for FreeBSD). after the > installation was finished, I rebooted my PC (IBM Compatible with Windows 95 as > the primary OS) and did not get any kind of prompt, even though I chose to > install Boot easy, to choose which OS I wanted to Boot up into. I then > installed a program called System Commander, which is supposed to auto detect > all operating systems that are installed in the boot record. The question is: > > How do I get FreeBSD installed on a dual IDE drive system when the boot record > can only be contained on the C: drive? You may have to manually install BootEasy. You might check that FreeBSD actually installed -- you should be able to boot the boot floppy and type `wd(1,a)/kernel' at the Boot: prompt and have the system start. To manually install booteasy: . grab bootinst.exe and boot.bin off the CD . make sure that any boot sector protection in the BIOS is turned off . Boot a DOS disk (not windows) . run bootinst > I followed all of the installation instructions that were shipped with the 4 > CD-ROM set, and still no luck. Even read the book that came with the CD's, > and could not find anything on my particular case. If you have any > suggestions as to the method(s) I should use to install FreeBSD, then Email me > at JROGERS351@AOL.COM If you want replies to go to jrogers351, why are you writing from l2hl2l? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message