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Subject: Re: boot manager
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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