From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 13 20:44:08 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA17530 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 13 Feb 1999 20:44:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from quackerjack.cc.vt.edu (quackerjack.cc.vt.edu [198.82.160.250]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA17523 for ; Sat, 13 Feb 1999 20:44:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from frmyers@vt.edu) Received: from sable.cc.vt.edu (sable.cc.vt.edu [128.173.16.30]) by quackerjack.cc.vt.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA26756 for ; Sat, 13 Feb 1999 23:43:57 -0500 (EST) Received: from FranklinP.Myers (as5200-7.sl003.cns.vt.edu [128.173.38.114]) by sable.cc.vt.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA16727 for ; Sat, 13 Feb 1999 23:43:55 -0500 (EST) Reply-To: From: "Franklin P. Myers" To: Subject: Can FreeBSD be installed on a slave drive? Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 23:41:13 -0500 Message-ID: <000201be57d4$40005740$7226ad80@FranklinP.Myers> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi folks, I still have not resolved this problem despite numerous hours at the website. I installed FreeBSD off my Walnut Creek CDROM onto my second (slaved) physical hard drive into a 2G partition of a 6G hard drive. I then installed Windows NT 4.0 into the rest of the second drive. The first drive (4G master) is all Windows 95. Both drives are connected to the same IDE controller. Unfortunately, I can't seem to get FreeBSD's boot manager to come up. The only way I can boot FreeBSD is using the boot floppy and the command: 1:wd(1,a)kernel. I have tried using BOOTINST.EXE (as per FAQ 2.9, http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/FAQ33.html#33) in the /TOOLS directory. Every time I run it, I get the following error messages: Cannot write to file bootsav.bin Cannot write to file boot2sav.bin Running the install program from floppy, CDROM, and FreeBSD are all ineffectual. I attempted to use Windows NT's "OS Loader" to handle the task (as per FAQ 8.7, http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/FAQ122.html#122), but I get a "Not a bootable partition" error. Thanks for any help, Frank Myers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message