Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 17:35:25 -0500 From: "Tim M. Kelley" <tkelley@cy.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Another Failed to boot problem Message-ID: <199601152338.SAA02637@cy.com>
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I've managed to install FreeBSD 2.1R from my ATAPI CDROM drive onto my second hard drive solely dedicated to FreeBSD. My primary drive is a DOS drive. During the (novice) install, I specified that the FreeBSD boot manager is to be installed. However, when I reboot my PC, I get the prompt from the boot manager to press F1 for DOS, or F5 for Disk 2. F1 boots DOS with no problems. However, F5 just causes the boot manager prompt to be redisplayed. In other words, I can't boot the installed FreeBSD. Here are my questions: 1) Is it possible to boot FreeBSD from a floppy and have the boot process automatically (or manually, even) recognize my FreeBSD installation? 2) How do I remove the boot manager from my DOS disk? 3) Alternatively, how do I make the FreeBSD boot manager work? Relevant Platform info: Pentium 75MHz, PCI bus, 32 Mb RAM 1220 MB disk set as master on primary IDE ribbon, DOS disk 202 MB disk set as master on secondary IDE ribbon, FreeBSD disk ATAPI CDROM drive set as slave on primary IDE ribbon Thanks for your help, Tim Kelley
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