Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 23:10:40 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> To: Dan Holliman <danh@gelatinous.com> Cc: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net>, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting 4.2 Message-ID: <20001211231040.A1544@buffy.local> In-Reply-To: <20001211115228.A74082@gelatinous.com>; from danh@gelatinous.com on Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 11:52:28AM -0800 References: <00121008151802.01488@buffy> <20001211115228.A74082@gelatinous.com>
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On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 11:52:28AM -0800, Dan Holliman wrote: > On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 08:15:18AM +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > Hello, > > I have installed 4.2 from CD. > > Try as I might I could not install it as bootable. > > I tried various permutations of installation. > > I dedicated the whole hard disk of the PC I was trying > > it on to BSD. > > But I got zip when I booted. > > So I installed a minimal linux installation, > > then BSD and using Lilo, lo and behold it booted ! > > I am no help but I had the exact same problem. > I spent hours agonizing over boot blocks and experimenting > with grub to try to get freebsd 4.2 to boot from the disk > drive of a PC (I blamed my weird HP Vectra BIOS at the time), > then I installed Linux just so I could use LILO, and > I was able to boot into freebsd finally. > Well, yours is the only reply I have had to this problem. I posted it on "stable" since that seemed to me to be appropriate. Maybe I will repost it on questions; maybe I misunderstand what the purpose of the stable list is, fundamental installation problems like this surely belong there ?? I am not so happy that I have to install one whole OS in order to boot another one ! Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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