From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 6 9:11:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from linux32.ansys.com (firewall.ansys.com [192.104.24.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 168D237B423 for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 09:11:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (cwa@localhost) by linux32.ansys.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA32036; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 12:11:56 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: linux32.ansys.com: cwa owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 12:11:56 -0400 (EDT) From: "Christopher W. Aiken" X-Sender: cwa@linux32.ansys.com To: Zhihui Zhang Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Boot from a CD In-Reply-To: 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 On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Zhihui Zhang wrote: -| -|On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: -| -|> Again I ask... I installed FBSD 4.1 only to find out -|> that the boot loader needs a patch to boot correctly. -|> At least that is what I learned from the FBSD errata -|> sheet out on the 'net. -|> -|> Is it possible to boot my newly installed FBSD 4.1 system -|> from my "official" CD's that I purchased from Walnut Creek? -|> If so how. -|> -|> Yes I have a bootable CD drive. When I boot from my CD's -|> FBSD wants to "install". What I need to know is how to -|> skip the install and boot up the FBSD system that I already -|> have installed. -| -|I am using FreeBSD 4.1-Release on several machines. Once you install -|FreeBSD on your hard disk, you should be able to boot from it, no floppy -|or CD-ROM is needed. Maybe you should check the BIOS setup to tell it to -|boot from your hard disk. If you still fail, try to be specific when -|describing your problem and hopefully someone will try to help your out. -| -|-Zhihui -| You missed the point. I too have done various installs w/o any problems. With this install I chose to use the "FreeBSD Boot Manager". This displays the F1/F2/F3... O/S selection at boot time. At 4.1 there is an error in this "boot manager" that prevents the system from booting at all. We are left with nothing but a blank screen and no keys, not even Ctrl-Alt-Del work. The FBSD site has this problem listed on the errata sheet. What I want to be able to do is boot my "installed" system up from the CD's bypassing the FBSD Boot manager. If I could do this, then I could apply the boot0 patch from the FBSD site. W/O this patch I'm dead in the water with no way to boot up my "installed" system, since the Boot Manager over wrote my MBR. --- Christopher W. Aiken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message