Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 13:18:55 -0500 (EST) From: "Russell D. Murphy" <rdmurphy@vt.edu> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Cc: rdmurphy@vt.edu Subject: boot manager Message-ID: <14058.43427.931954.89764@neale.econ.vt.edu>
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After a hard disk replacement, I'm trying to install 3.1R from
CD-ROM on a Gateway 5100 laptop. It previously ran 2.2.8-Stable and
W95.
I'm doing something completely backwards because I cannot get the
boot manager installed properly.
I want a small (roughly 500MB) partition for W95 and the rest (roughly
3500MB) of the drive for FreeBSD. After partitioning the drive into
450MB - DOS
58MB - FreeBSD
(rest) - FreeBSD
(although I'm pretty sure I used to have 1GB for W95 and 3GB for
FreeBSD, but trying the above to stay within the 1024 cylinder limit
for the root partition) and installing / on the 1st FreeBSD partition,
I invariably get the following prompt upon rebooting after the
installation:
F1 - DOS
F2 - FreeBSD
F3 - FreeBSD
F5 - Disk0
None of these will boot. Choosing F5 will bring up a shorter list of
choices, but I can't get past the boot manager menu.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Thanks in advance.
Russ Murphy
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