From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 25 11:46:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA01500 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 11:46:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA01424 for ; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 11:45:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA24835; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 11:45:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 11:45:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: GeneTRex@aol.com cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 25 Jun 1998 GeneTRex@aol.com wrote: > I must be over looking something. I left an earlier message about trying to > find install.bat but it turn's out it's not really needed or it's just > included within the novice installation from the boot disk. After playing with > the partition size I got enough room to do the install. I have 1 hard drive > with a small 50 meg dos partition including the downloaded distribution files. > I created the boot floppy went through novice install, all installed, I > rebooted the bootmanager came up with dos and FREEBSD boot choices, Dos boots > OK but..... > > FREEBSD reports that it can't find the boot config or boot help. This is usually indicitive of a failed install, but what happens if you hit and the Boot: prompt? boot.config and boot.help are two files in the root directory that provide a default boot: command and the usage message printed before displaying the boot: prompt. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message