From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 22 20:56:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA29745 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 22 Jan 1996 20:56:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA29735 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 1996 20:56:28 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id UAA01791; Mon, 22 Jan 1996 20:53:55 -0800 Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 20:53:55 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: "Tim M. Kelley" cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Removing boot manager, again. In-Reply-To: <199601221527.KAA25299@cy.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 22 Jan 1996, Tim M. Kelley wrote: > I wish to remove the boot manager installed during the freebsd install > process. The reason for this is because the boot manager does not recognize > my freebsd (bootable) disk. > > When I try FDISK /MBR (even booted from a floppy), FDISK returns with > NO FIXED DISKS INSTALLED! Um, that doesn't sound good. Can you get to drive C:? If not, have you checked your CMOS configuration lately? > I suspect that FDISK doesn't work is because of my PCI system or the big DOS > (1.2 GB) disk, but that's just a guess. Uh oh...Does your BIOS support EIDE disks? Or did you load a program on boot to get the support, like something from MICRO HOUSE INTERNATIONAL? (I hope it wasn't #2 or you're going to be very unhappy.) > Incidentally, the only reason I want to remove the boot manager is because > it doesn't recognize the FreeBSD disk. Any help would be greatly appreciated. This won't work since most BIOSs won't boot off the second IDE controller, if you're setup like you say below. You'll have to move your Toshiba to the second controller and your FreeBSD onto the primary controller. Someone said to try setting your freebsd drive as active. > Here is the relevant system: > Pentium 75 Mhz, 32 Mb RAM > PCI Bus, Intel Motherboard (triton chipset) > 1.44 Mb floppy > Western Digital AC31200 IDE drive, (DOS disk) > 1.2 Gb master drive on primary IDE > Toshiba ATAPI 4X cdrom slave on primary IDE > Maxtor IDE drive, (FreeBSD disk) > 1.0 Gb master drive on secondary IDE > Maxtor 7213A IDE drive, (currently garbage, to be used by DOS) > 202 Mb slave drive on secondary IDE Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major