From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 1 23:23:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA15943 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 1 Apr 1996 23:23:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from proxy.siemens.at (proxy.siemens.at [192.138.228.19]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA15888 for ; Mon, 1 Apr 1996 23:21:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from p0.hai.siemens.co.at (p0.hai.siemens-austria) by proxy.siemens.at with SMTP id AA22289 (5.67a/IDA-1.5 for ); Tue, 2 Apr 1996 09:20:29 +0200 Received: from zerberus by p0.hai.siemens.co.at with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #7 for ) id m0u40OB-0006iIC; Tue, 2 Apr 96 09:20 MET DST Received: from localhost by zerberus (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA26762; Tue, 2 Apr 96 09:20:26 +0200 Message-Id: <9604020720.AA26762@zerberus> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.4 10/10/95 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Installation Problems with FreeBSD 2.1 X-Face: *HdYst&>D!7@R^3JewOx{3zRNtA&"7s(fH9A*9?I1(O^F!(+03N[r,>[Jp?T$MGsKWmf/md ~>_(!O*f`k)#v(8T".;/NZ?O9c`CQTu1j!;.kg~c^legt/+^,yAzK%w,{_[IYNB>D}[0O{r`Zmq2k) _8p;M=Lj^b=NURToJCrf#94;o"m?6]8e\P),c8ZoL*'xMr*Brn#6Yb1t/uzw<-JV6{zwc(gLg%ADn/ J5Q*F7@E6_;-^L_2(V~GR=0;tjCY\2bE4+F)Thky,)Mu2w4F"vUEJHvd\Vy\l]9+%9Fbvsqfp6%A(Y tpv? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1996 09:20:26 +0200 From: Werner Kuehnert Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi ! Last weekend I tried to install FreeBSD 2.1 on my computer and had only little success. I have the distribution on CD and everything works fine (booting, partitioning, labeling, choice of packages and so on) up to the point of first reboot, which didn't work because there was no bootable partition left :-( My configuration is : Intel Plato MB with 100Mhz Pentium, 32Mb RAM, NCR 810 SCSI-Controller and the following devices : ID0: Toshiba MK438FB 857MB HD ID1: CDC 94191-15 630MB HD (Wren 6) ID2: Wangtek 5150ES Tape drive ID3: Toshiba CD-ROM ID5: Quantum Lightning 700MB HD ID6: Iomega ZIP-Drive The partitions are as follows : Drive ID0 : #1: Primary DOS 127MB #2: Extended DOS 64MB 1 log. drive #3: Non-DOS (0xA5) 665MB Drive ID1 : #1: Non-DOS (0xA5) 630MB Drive ID5 : #1: Extended-DOS 349MB 2 log. drives #2: Non-DOS (0xA5) 350MB I tried to install the system onto partition #3 / drive ID0. When I boor from a DOS-disk the second (extended partition) is gone. I tried to install the boot selector program supplied with freebsd. So what's going on here ? Why am I unable to boot from the HD after installing freebsd ? Why is thye second partition gone after the installation ? How can I fix this problem _without_ repartitioning my HD's ? Any hints are highly appreciated. TIA -- Regards Werner I do NOT speak for SIEMENS. Werner Kuehnert Siemens AG Oesterreich PSE EZE KBA 1 E-Mail: kue@zerberus.hai.siemens.co.at Private E-Mail: kuehnert@ping.at A bad day at the beach is better than a good day at work. Make a nice day :-)