From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 30 10: 3:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from copland.udel.edu (copland.udel.edu [128.175.13.92]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1AA214E05 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 1999 10:02:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from papalia@UDel.Edu) Received: from morgaine.avalon.com (host75-157.student.udel.edu [128.175.75.157]) by copland.udel.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA22057; Thu, 30 Sep 1999 13:02:49 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.1.19990930125711.0094be60@unix01.voicenet.com> X-Sender: papalia@mail.udel.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 13:00:43 -0400 To: Michael Grommet , "'Alejandro Ramirez'" , "'Sheldon Hearn'" , "'e l l e :)'" From: John Subject: RE: FreeBSD install Cc: "'questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" In-Reply-To: <7011ACE3864AD31183E50008C7FA081F01D4E8@ISIMAIN> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> > This takes me to some foreign place where it reads, "Hit A to boot >> > from a:" so I do that, after sticking in the kern.flp floppy in a. >> >> This is also not something I've seen with FreeBSD installs, so it's >> probably _also_ something specific to your computer. > >She must probably has an MBR Manager to support some kind of disk, and this >manager its the one that shows the "Hit A to boot from a:" thing, so I >suggest to "Back Up" all the important data of your disk, and try something >like a:\fdisk /mbr to restore a normal MBR to the disk, and try again. > >BTW All the information and the Windos stuff will be lost. I didn't pay too much attn to the beginning of this thread, but some info that might help... I've actually seen a couple of computer (and I forget which BIOS they had) which in the BIOS under "Boot Sequence" they have something like a "prompt" option, which offers up what seems to be described: "Press A to boot from A Drive, C to boot from C drive, etc.". Also, in Win95 (at least this has been my experience, and I think it's referenced as well in the multios tutuorial on the freebsd site), fdisk /mbr does NOT destroy all data on the drive. fdisk itself does. fdisk /mbr only affects the boot record. In previous windows/dos versions (3.1 and before), fdisk /mbr was just as good as fdisk and killing off your partitions. Not sure if that helps at all, but maybe it does. --john To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message