From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 26 20:28:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA22516 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 26 Apr 1996 20:28:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from europa.com (root@thetics.europa.com [199.2.194.14]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA22508 for ; Fri, 26 Apr 1996 20:28:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by europa.com (/\==/\ Smail3.1.28.1 #28.13) id ; Fri, 26 Apr 96 20:27 PDT Message-ID: <31819452.1F93@m-b-o.com> Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 20:28:18 -0700 From: "Schrodinger's Cat" Organization: Willamette Web Works X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0GoldB2 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@FreeBSD.org CC: toivonen@europa.com Subject: Logical DOS Partitions X-URL: http://www.cdrom.com/titles/bsdbook.html Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Dear Sirs, I have followed the installation process for FBSD 2.1 (i386) VERY carefully and am having some troubles. My machine: Cyrix 486DX100 VESA MB Diamond SVGA 16MB RAM Hard Drive C: - 840MB EIDE Hard Drive D: - 200MB IDE HD Controller - EIDE Misumi ATAPI CDROM I configured d:/ with a small DOS Partition (5mb) and gave the rest to FreeBSD using your "novice" installation menu from view.exe. What I intended to do is install FreeBSD onto the smaller D: drive and leave C: untouched. Hoping that I would be able to select between the two drives, and the OS's they hold, at boot up. I followed the directions in what I thought was a correct manner and upon completion/reboot I get a blank system screen with only a "NO ROM BIOS LOADED" message in the upper right corner. Subsequent reboots result in the same unless I use a DOS formatted boot floppy. What I assume is happening is that the install program is overwriting the boot sector of C: where I have Win95 installed exclusively. I have tested the drive geometry for both drives and have found no discrepencies with what the install program states. I have also tried several installations with/without the various "bootmanager" options. All with the same effect. Fortunately I am always able to recover by reinstalling Win95 onto c: (the FAT remains unharmed) and can subsequently boot into FreeBSD by use of a floppy created by makeflp. However, at the "boot:" prompt I have to enter wd(1,a)/kernel to bypass the "view" program. This convoluted method seems to work except that I constantly get "not enough disk space" errors when trying to view man pages even though there is over 100mb of free space on the FBSD partition. Should I delete the DOS partitions while in the label editor program part of the installation?? Or will such an action litteraly delete those partitions even to DOS?? Please offer any advice that you can think of. Or perhaps relay to me a good book on the subject that I can purchase somewhere. Thank You, Anthony Toivonen -- *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* *-*-* This text printed on 100% recycled electrons! *-*-* *-*-* schrodingers_cat@m-b-o.com *-*-* *-*-* http://www.europa.com/~toivonen/ *-*-* *-*-* "KILL YOUR TELEVISION!!" *-*-* *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*