From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 12 01:38:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA08852 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 01:38:11 -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 BAA08721 for ; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 01:37:21 -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 BAA08803; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 01:37:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 01:37:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "Allen, Eric" cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Booting from my hard drive In-Reply-To: <01CB3CD8F39DCF11A6E20001FA3273FD0311FCB7@NS_MSG_TC.nabisco.com> 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 Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Allen, Eric wrote: > I attempted to install FreeBSD this weekend from the CDs. I couldn't seem > to get the partitioning utility (FIPS? - I'm on the road now so I don't have > the PC or Docs in front of me) to come up on my machine so I used DOS-FDISK. > This wiped out my hard drive and I was prepared for that and went to my > backups. In order to restore my DOS/Window's 3.1 data I booted from a > floopy reformatted the DOS partition and copied the data to it. My machine > still won't boot from the C: drive though. You need to dig a DOS disk out and run `sys C:' to resurrect the system files. > On the FreeBSD front, I went through the installation process and at > the very end it failed because it couldn't recognize the CD. However, > the BootManager seemed to have loaded because when I turn the machine on > (with no boot floopy) I get a choice "1 for DOS and 2 for BSD" it's when > I hit 1 the machine doesn't seem to go anywhere. I expected it to try > to boot from the DOS C: partition. That's F1.Dunno what to say about your CD tho. 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