From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 12 12:10:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA07529 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 12 Jul 1996 12:10:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from albyl.ies.luth.se (albyl.ies.luth.se [130.240.6.14]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA07503 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 1996 12:10:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 130.240.6.42 (elevmac12.ies.luth.se) by albyl.ies.luth.se with SMTP (5.65+bind 1.7+ida 1.4.2/IDA-1.2.8-NS) id AA16949; Fri, 12 Jul 1996 21:08:17 +0200 Message-Id: <31E6A405.22@tullverket.se> Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 20:14:13 +0100 From: per.hannlov@tullverket.se X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Macintosh; I; 68K) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Why does not my FreeBSD inst. works ???? X-Url: http://www.cdrom.com/titles/freebsd.html Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have made about 15 FreeBSD installations !!!! The problem is : If I makes a FreeBSD installation, the PC wont boot there is no problem what so ever with the installation. But when I boot my PC. The only thing that happends is: F1 DOS F2 BSD If I choose F2, the pipesigne (|) prompts. and my PC hangs. Ok I know I know. I have already made a Installation (350 MB partition) and disabled my external BIOS on my Promise Eide 2300 controller card and the FreeBSD inst. was sucessfull. BUT when I will make a DOS partiotion of the rest of my 1275 MB disk the size of the partition only reach 105 MB. (Tot 504 MB). I have ALSO already made a small (1 MB) DOS partition then the 350 Free.. partition --->> No different. The strange thing is that if I enables the external BIOS and boot the floppy. FreeBSD can recognise all of my harddisk. Because the installation is successfull BUT I cant boot. It looks like the bootmanager can not find the bootsector of my Free... partition I only describes a few alternatives of installation I have made. --->>> And I can tell you. This problem is not possible to solve in some hardware way. I must get som software, or if someone can help me with some installations parameters. I have in principal made a Fresbee of my FreeBSD but if there is some hacker who can solve the problem I would gladely tell everone what a wonderfull world the FreeBSD world is. For now on ---->>> MICROSOFT NT Per Hannlöv Edeforsgatan 46 974 38 Luleĺ Sweden 046-920 94269 per.hannlov@tullverket.se