From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 6 22:11:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA11131 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 6 May 1996 22:11:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA11126 for ; Mon, 6 May 1996 22:11:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id WAA29710; Mon, 6 May 1996 22:15:04 -0700 Date: Mon, 6 May 1996 22:15:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: wayne tamagi cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problems with installation In-Reply-To: <318BB318.4D84@unixg.ubc.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 4 May 1996, wayne tamagi wrote: > Hello I have just installed Freebsd on my harddrive. My drive is > partitioned with Windows 95 on the C and Freebsd on the D. After > installing Freebsd I tried a bootup and nothing would happen. The > system stops. Do I need to change some of the hardware configuration > setting? Can you be more specific about what you mean by "nothing would happen"? My guess is either: 1) The 'active' partition was reset. Try setting it to your Win95 partition with DOS FDISK. 2) Wrong geometry. Try putting a small DOS partition on the second disk, then install FreeBSD over it, deleting it in the process if you don't want it. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major