Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 21:03:47 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com> To: rdmurphy@vt.edu Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot manager Message-ID: <199903131903.VAA06228@ceia.nordier.com> In-Reply-To: <14058.43427.931954.89764@neale.econ.vt.edu> from "Russell D. Murphy" at "Mar 13, 99 01:18:55 pm"
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Russell D. Murphy wrote:
> 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
Your BIOS is apparently not passing the expected drive number to the
boot manager. There's a fix available at
http://www.freebsd.org/~rnordier/boot0-1.7.tar.gz
See the README file for details.
It should be possible to boot either from CD-ROM or a floppy, in order
to install the new code.
--
Robert Nordier
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