Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 09:33:19 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com> To: "Christopher W. Aiken" <chris.aiken@ansys.com> Cc: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Boot from a CD Message-ID: <39B671CF.6A25A9C9@urx.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10009061202310.31941-100000@linux32.ansys.com>
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"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
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