From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Dec 11 14:49:16 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 11 14:49:13 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0D7337B400 for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 14:49:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.77.116] (helo=buffy.raggedclown) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #2) id 145bks-0004pL-00; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 22:49:10 +0000 Received: (from cliff@localhost) by buffy.raggedclown (8.10.2/8.10.2) id eBBMAej02121; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 23:10:40 +0100 Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 23:10:40 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: Dan Holliman Cc: Cliff Sarginson , stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting 4.2 Message-ID: <20001211231040.A1544@buffy.local> References: <00121008151802.01488@buffy> <20001211115228.A74082@gelatinous.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001211115228.A74082@gelatinous.com>; from danh@gelatinous.com on Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 11:52:28AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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