From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 4 10:22:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA26778 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 10:22:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA26770 for ; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 10:22:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA05413; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 10:21:25 -0700 Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 10:21:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Jeroen Schellart cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <31B3E51E.290A@si.hhs.nl> 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 Tue, 4 Jun 1996, Jeroen Schellart wrote: > I have reinstalled FreeBSD and when I want to boot it I get the message > "Not a bootable partition". I also tried to put my root filesystem on my > first drive and the other partitions on my second drive. I have tried > using System Commander, OS2 Boot Manager, your own bootmanager, nothing. Check FDISK and make sure one of your partitions is labelled "active". I know for a fact that the OS/2 Boot Manager works. Even to a second disk. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major