From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 17 4:57:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mgw1.MEIway.com (mgw1.meiway.com [212.73.210.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C7AC37B4EC for ; Sat, 17 Feb 2001 04:57:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from sv.Go2France.com (sv.meiway.com [212.73.210.79]) by mgw1.MEIway.com (Postfix Relay Hub) with ESMTP id 1A3DF6A906 for ; Sat, 17 Feb 2001 13:57:42 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.0.20010217134955.01b5c870@mail.Go2France.com> X-Sender: lconrad%Go2France.com@mail.Go2France.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 13:55:29 +0100 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Len Conrad Subject: Re: can't boot 4.2R In-Reply-To: <001901c098de$5f715b40$0c00a8c0@ipform.ru> References: <5.0.0.25.0.20010217131639.01ac6030@mail.Go2France.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >I don't understand. What boot manager has to do with CDROM? nothing >If you want to bood from a CDROM then you BIOS must support >bootable CD's. it does, but that's not the key issue. >If it does not - upgrade your BIOS. If it is not >upgradable-you are stuck with floppies. ok, that's what I used many times to stry to set up this system, but, after freebsd 4.2R is installed by booting with the floopies and installing from cdrom, I then cannot get the system to boot from harddisk, some kind of partition table pb. >Or am i missing something? I should not have mentioned not booting, the pb is the "successful" floppy install that refuses to boot the OS from hard disk. Before its previous harddisk died, this system was running 3.2R, installed from a booted ISO image. That disk died, now the new disk has partition table pb's. How to get around that? Len http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : Binary for ISC BIND 8.2.3 for NT4 & W2K http://IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-spam mail gateways To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message