Date: Fri, 21 Mar 97 22:54:26 From: "Mike G." <mikegoe@ibm.net> To: "Damen Cole" <klink@4u.net>, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Boot Manager Message-ID: <199703220403.EAA54430@out1.ibm.net>
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On Fri, 21 Mar 1997 20:22:48 -0600, Damen Cole wrote:
>Hello, I'm trying to install FreeBSD Release 2.2
>I am trying to put the FreeBSD stuff on my 3rd hard drive (all hard drives
>exceed 1024 cylinders - but i have a translating BIOS so, hopefully it
>won't matter)
>and I managed to install the boot manager on the 1st drive (running windows
>'95) - i've got the boot manager to work - except it only gives me the
>option to boot to DOS i.e. F1
>
>I *think* I installed the UNIX binaries correctly to the 3rd drive (i can't
>be sure - because I can't boot onto it) - If there is no obvioius solution
>to my 1st problem - is it possible to create a FreeBSD 1.44mb bootdiskette
>that I could create and use that instead?
Being on a third drive should not matter...you do, however,
need to make sure you marked the third drive as *bootable*...
also....even though FreeBSD can use EIDE drives, the entire
root dir must be below the 1024 limit.
Michael G.
Brought to you by the Letters 'O' and 'S' and the number '2' :)
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