Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 00:29:01 -0400 From: William Maloney <wmaloney@multiverse.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Getting FreeBSD to boot from my MBR. Message-ID: <3.0.2.32.19971020002901.006912b8@multiverse.com>
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About a year ago I purchased the FreeBSD 2.0.5 Walnut Creek CD Roms.
At that time I was running a 486-66 with 8mbs ram. I couldn't get
these to work right and just set them aside.
Now I have a AMD-K5-166 with 64mbs ram, a 2.1GB scsi hd, a 507MB
scsi hd, and a scsi CDROM. I am running Win95. The 2.1GB hard
drive is solely for Win95.
I thought I would give these FreeBSD Roms another shot, so I installed
them on the 507MB scsi without many problems.
The installation took ok but I can't seem to get the hard-drive boot
into FreeBSD. At boot I always get the following:
F1...... Dos
Default:F1
Now if I hit F1 or don't do anything the system always goes to W95:
Starting Windows 95
The following is how my 'Label' editor is set-up:
Port Mount Size Newfs
sdos1 /msdos 2047MB Y
sd1s1 /dos 4MB Y
sd1s2a / 395MB Y
sd1s3b swap 64MB
sd1s4e /usr 143MB Y
On the sd1s1 above I even put a small Dos partition (as according to your
FAQs) so the geometry is right on boot-up. That didn't help - it still
will not see the FreeBSD on boot - it only sees the Dos.
I can get to the installed FreeBSD by leaving in my boot disk in the
'A' drive and when it comes to the Boot: here is what I do:
Boot: sd(1,a)/kernel
That gets me into the operating system, but it's a pain doing it that
way.
How can I set-up this MBR properly so I can either boot into Dos or
FreeBSD?
Do you need any further info?
Thank you,
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