From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 6 4:57: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.netcologne.de (mail2.netcologne.de [194.8.194.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4278E37B424 for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 04:56:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de (dial-213-168-73-22.netcologne.de [213.168.73.22]) by mail2.netcologne.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA26250; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 13:56:49 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (localhost.security.at12.de [127.0.0.1]) by bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e86Bucb03406; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 13:56:42 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from pherman@frenchfries.net) Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 13:56:37 +0200 (CEST) From: Paul Herman To: Mehran Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: After installation freeBSD won't run In-Reply-To: <000a01c01799$b2531b80$f92aed18@anchorageak.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Mehran, [please wrap your lines to about 80 columns or so...] On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Mehran wrote: > I have installed freeBSD 4.0 from CD (BSD power pack) 8 or 9 > times so far. Each time the installation goes fine, but when the > system boots for the first time, it gives me an error message: > > " Preparing machine to load FreeBSD/386 > ..... > Read error" > > and thats all I get. I have dedicated whole hard drive to > freebsd. It seems its looking for something in drive "A". I am > using bootmagic, since I have Win 98 in another hard drive. If you want FreeBSD to work with other operating systems, you can't "dedicate the whole disk" to FreeBSD (there is a warning during installation about this.) The best thing for you to do is to partition the FreeBSD drive with 1 or 2 FreeBSD partitions (so that a valid partition table is written in the MBR). This way, bootmagic will know where to look on your hard drive for the FreeBSD partition. For more information see: http://www.FreeBSD.org/tutorials/multi-os/ -Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message