Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 11:17:27 -0700 From: Jeffrey Hsu <hsu> To: wstout@pixi.corp.es.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: (fwd) trouble installing FreeBSD 2.0.5 Message-ID: <199510251817.LAA02922@freefall.freebsd.org>
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> I have one SCSI drive on a 1542 card dedicated to FreeBSD. > The machine is... > i486/33 > 16 Megs ram > IDE control with 2 400 Meg drives > SCSI adaptec 1542, 766 Meg > Mitsumi single speed CDROM > Sound Blaster > 5 1/4 and 3 1/2 floppies > Hercules SVGA video 1 Meg ram > It doesn't seem to set up the boot manager. > When I reboot there isn't a boot manager installed. You can manually install a boot manager from DOS. I recommend osbsbeta, which is on the first CDROM in tools/osbsbeta.exe. > Is there some way to boot from floppy? Try using the boot floppy, except rather than accepting the default on-floppy kernel, use sd(0,a)/kernel or hd(X,a)/kernel, where X=2 probably. > Is there some way to exit the installation program and remain booted? > I could them find the kernel and dump it to floppy. There's supposed to be a shell you can get to by typing Alt-F2(? one of those FN keys), but there's no need to do this. The above methods should work.
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