From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 12 01:50:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA21709 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 12 Apr 1997 01:50:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA21688 for ; Sat, 12 Apr 1997 01:50:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nadav@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.8.5/8.6.12) id LAA07747; Sat, 12 Apr 1997 11:48:57 +0300 (IDT) Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 11:48:57 +0300 (IDT) From: Nadav Eiron To: root@disorder.oxygen.ml.org cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BootManager question. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 11 Apr 1997 root@disorder.oxygen.ml.org wrote: > Hello, > > I installed FreeBSD-3.0, and the installation ran smoothly, but > after rebooting, the boot manager doesn't kick in. I can still access my > FreeBSD partition's by using the boot disk and typing 1:wd(1,a)kernel or > whatever, but i want the bootmanager to work... Someone told me that i > have to install the bootmanager on wd0, but i'am not quite sure how to > do this. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, > > --(ox@oxygen.ml.org) > > Boot DOS and run the program bootinst.exe from the tools directory on the ftp site/CDROM. Nadav