Date: Mon, 12 Aug 96 10:38:45 edt From: Bruce Perryman <Bruce_Perryman@ibi.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Boot problems after installing FreeBSD Message-ID: <9607128398.AA839871623@tcpgate.ibi.com>
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Hello Walnut Creek,
I am a new FreeBSD user and I am having trouble using it.
I have 2 hard drives, a 252 MB as the master and a 2000 MB as the
slave. Although my bios is dated February 1994, I had trouble seeing
all of my 2000 MB drive. So I used IBM's Disk Manager software to
create 2 1000 MB partitions. In doing so Disk Manager created a boot
manager on my C drive which prompts me to press the spacebar if I want
to boot from a floppy, otherwise it boots from my C drive.
Then I attempted to install FreeBSD.
I created an installation boot floppy from my FreeBSD v2.1
installation CD and proceeded to install a intermediate level
XDevleloper version of FreeBSD. To create space I deleted the second
partition created by Disk Manager and created a 950 MB partition for
FreeBSD. I requested that the master boot record remain untouched,
however after the installation was completed, and the system rebooted,
I was prompted to insert a boot floppy in drive A. My PC won't boot
now unless I have a boot floppy. This wouldn't be so bad if I could
boot FreeBSD from a floppy, but I can't figure out how. I don't see
anywhere in the menus how to create a boot floppy to run FreeBSD. I
do see how to create one for installation. So FreeBSD is installed
but I can't run it.
The ideal situation would be to have FreeBSD's boot manager control
whether I boot DOS or BSD and have BSD on my large drive (I would
rather not boot from a floppy). However, I need Disk Manager's boot
manager to see all of my large drive. The next desirable situation
would be to boot FreeBSD from a floppy - but I need instructions on
how to do so. If you can give me any other options for the solution
of this problem, I would appreciate it.
I hope that I was too descriptive of the problem, however if I wasn't
please contact me so that I can further clarify. I am very eager to
get started with FreeBSD. I look forward to your reply.
Thank you,
Bruce Perryman
(212)736-4433 x4444
M-F 9-5
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