From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 25 17:52:40 1994 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id RAA20966 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 25 Dec 1994 17:52:40 -0800 Received: from wdl1.wdl.loral.com (wdl1.wdl.loral.com [137.249.32.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id BAA20960 for ; Mon, 26 Dec 1994 01:52:39 GMT Received: from hps.sso.loral.com by wdl1.wdl.loral.com (4.1/WDL-4.2) id AA04170; Sun, 25 Dec 94 17:51:43 PST Received: by hps.sso.loral.com (4.1/SSO-SUN-2.04) id AA22980; Sun, 25 Dec 94 20:41:16 EST Date: Sun, 25 Dec 94 20:41:16 EST From: rpt@hps.sso.loral.com (Richard Toren) Message-Id: <9412260141.AA22980@hps.sso.loral.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: [?]@nd drive Boot Failure Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Gentlemen; I just started the install from the CD i received last Friday. I am installing onto a second disk that is a SCSI (bt0) unit. I am allocating this entire disk to FreeBSD. I wrote the boot record to wd0 as recommended in the 'trouble' entry. When I boot, I get the screen: F1 .... DOS F5 .... Disk 2 Regardless of what key I press, the boot always comes from DOS on the ide drive. (drive 2 is marked as bootable). I tried booting the floppy, when it asked for the boot device I entered 'hd(1,0)/kernel' as directed. The boot started up from drive 2, probed the buses, and then said it was rebooting in 15 seconds. When this reboot took place, up came DOS (I had no chance to intervene.). Is this the code in \tools\dos_tool\srcs\bteasy ? (ps. the INSTALL doc typos the path with 'dos-tool'. I am suspending installation until I can clear this. Is it possible to make up a file that could be put on a boot floppy that simply transfers the boot to drive 2 or whatever? Rip Toren rpt@miles.sso.loral.com