From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 6 9:33:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from 2711.dynacom.net (2711.dynacom.net [206.107.213.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EFDC37B423 for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 09:33:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from urx.com (dsl1-160.dynacom.net [206.159.132.160]) by 2711.dynacom.net (Build 101 8.9.3/NT-8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA03610; Wed, 06 Sep 2000 09:33:19 -0700 Message-ID: <39B671CF.6A25A9C9@urx.com> Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 09:33:19 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Organization: Dynacom Net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Christopher W. Aiken" Cc: Zhihui Zhang , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Boot from a CD References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Christopher W. Aiken" wrote: > > 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. Did you try following the instructions on booting from the floppies if you can't boot from the CD. Kent > > --- > Christopher W. Aiken > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ Home http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message