From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 8 12:01:37 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA05366 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 8 Aug 1996 12:01:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fastlane.net (fastlane.net [204.251.16.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA05361 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 1996 12:01:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [204.251.16.82] ([204.251.16.82]) by fastlane.net (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA24564 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 1996 14:01:18 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199608081901.OAA24564@fastlane.net> X-Authentication-Warning: fastlane.net: Host [204.251.16.82] didn't use HELO protocol Date: Thu, 08 Aug 96 01:49:50 -0400 From: "M. Wang" X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.2N (Windows; I; 16bit) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Boot manager Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, I installed FreeBSD 2.1.0. But, when reboot from hard disk, it just boot as if I had never installed boot manager. When I am in DOS, I cannot change drive to the partition I installed FreeBSD. However, from fdisk, I can see a partition marked Non-DOS and the activation status is on. I partitioned my disk using fdisk utility of DOS. When I first installed FreeBSD, I could not boot from my hard disk at all. I had to reinstall DOS and all other data in my first drive and second drive. (So, basically, I install FreeBSD before I install DOS?). The current situation is like what I described on my first paragraph. I have 486 machine. Two IDE drives. 130 meg and 540 meg. I use first drive for DOS(windows3.1), and the first part of second drive for DOS, and remaining for FreeBSD. I use novice installation. The second drive partition after I installed FreeBSD is as follows: Offset Size End Name PType Desc Subtype Flags 0 1008 1007 - 6 unused 0 1008 512,064 513,071 wd1s1 4 extended 5 = 513,072 541,296 1,054,367 wd1s2 3 freebsd 165 C= I saw some questions similar to mine on the search engine, but, where can I find the answers to those questions? By the way, when I install, I did not see where it ask me which drive I want to install Boot manager, I supposed it just install on my first dirve, right? Thank you for your patience. Marie Wang Disk name: wd1 Disk Geometry 1046 cyls / 16 heads / 63 sectors