From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 7 1:29:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.fr.clara.net (lorraine.fr.clara.net [212.43.194.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4702B37B422 for ; Mon, 7 May 2001 01:29:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from james@fr.clara.net) Received: from munster.noc.fr.clara.net (munster.noc.fr.clara.net [212.43.195.20]) by mail2.fr.clara.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D686B353AA; Mon, 7 May 2001 10:29:03 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 10:29:03 +0200 (CEST) From: James Tapping X-Sender: james@munster.noc.fr.clara.net To: Sue Blake Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd bootdisk In-Reply-To: <20010506075422.L220@welearn.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 6 May 2001, Sue Blake wrote: > Follow-ups to James and -questions please. > No discussion of install problems should be held on -newbies. > > On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 01:47:02PM +0200, James Tapping wrote: > > > > Hello > > > > I am new too FreeBSD and coming from the linux world...I have an old > > 486 machine that I use as a NAT gateway using Debian Linux, and I > > have never managed to get the machine to boot from the harddrive > > (even after using a /boot partition etc), so i quite happily use a > > boot-diskette. So my question is what and how does one do the > > equivalent thing in FreeBSD? > > That arrangement is a Linuxism that I've heard of before but don't > fully understand. There is no direct equivalent for FreeBSD, because > the two operating systems boot entirely differently. In order to solve > your problem for FreeBSD, you need to start again with a totally > FreeBSD approach, first defining the problem in an OS-independent > manner. > > > Yes, I have tried installing a FreeBSD on the machine and it doesn't > > want to boot either, the machine justs asks for a diskette (nothing > > in the bios settings either, its an IBM 433 DXS) > > > > Any ideas? > > What version of FreeBSD are you installing? 4.3 > How much RAM does the machine have? 16MB > How big is the hard disk, are you using all of it 3.2 gig and yes Slicing, I used all of it... > Did the standard FreeBSD installation succeed? Yes until the moment where the machine reboots. And then of course it dosen't :-) I don't see the words freeBSD atall, I get an ascii drawing obviously asking me to put a diskette in the drive..., this comes from the PC and nothing to do with Freebsd...It's an old machine and I am sure that this is where the problem is coming from. > How much RAM does the machine have? That could be a limiting factor. > How big is the hard disk, are you using all of it, and how have you > sliced it (DOSSpeak=partition) for FreeBSD? We usually use a single > slice and make partitions within that, unlike Linux. > Did the standard FreeBSD installation succeed? If so, where > do you first read the word "FreeBSD" when you try to boot? > > If the machine has FreeBSD installed and is asking for a boot diskette, > I can't imagine that it would be FreeBSD making that request. Perhaps > scraps of the old boot manager remain? > > > please reply personally as I am not subscribed to questions@ on newbies > > No problem. > > Perhaps you'll see someone on freebsd-questions correct me (and cc you) > if I've said anything wrong. Meanwhile, James, can you provide some > more information to freebsd-questions so that the support volunteers > can help you? Exactly what have you got, and what have you done with it > so far? If anyone can help you, they will do so on freebsd-questions > with a cc to you but you might have to help the helpers a little more. > > -- > > Regards, > -*Sue*- Thanks :-) > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message