From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 22 00:04:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA06017 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 00:04:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fledge.watson.org (root@FLEDGE.RES.CMU.EDU [128.2.89.13]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA06008 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 00:04:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (robert@localhost) by fledge.watson.org (8.7.5/8.6.10) with SMTP id DAA13779; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 03:04:17 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 03:04:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson To: ellison4 cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Installation In-Reply-To: <326C347E.37DA@erols.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk While I would love to help you, I am not experienced with the System Commander boot program, as I run a dedicated server, not a multi-booting one. I've cc'd a copy of this message (including your request) to questions@freebsd.org, the volunteer-run question answering list for FreeBSD. You may want to follow up with an email to questions@freebsd.org with a more comprehensive description of your hardware, installation process/method, specific "cryptic error message", etc. Thanks, and sorry I couldn't be more helpful. Robert Watson On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, ellison4 wrote: > I was speaking to Dave about my FreeBSD installation problems and he suggested > that I e-mail you. I would greatly appreciate any input which you would have. I > have a multiple boot computer with two hard disks, a 1.2 gig and a 127 meg drive. > My first disk has system commander installed which manages the many operating > systems. On it is Windows NT Server, Windows 95, Windows for Workgroups. I have > didicated the second disk to a minimal install of FreeBSD. Every time I try to > install it, I reboot into it and get the error statement " No bootable > partition". Then I tried uninstalling system commander and using the FreeBSD > boot manager, and it simply gives a more cryptic error and freezes. I have tried > making the first partition of the first drive active, the second drive active, > both drives active, the first sector of the second drive (which is only a few > bytes) active,...What am I doing wrong. More information, I have been trying > to install the files from a dos partition. It is probably as plain as can be, > but I haven't figured it out. Thank you. > Richard > >