From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 23 11: 8:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from arapaho.cse.ucsc.edu (arapaho.cse.ucsc.edu [128.114.49.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13C2615778 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 1999 11:08:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from anthonyp@arapaho.cse.ucsc.edu) Received: from arapaho.cse.ucsc.edu (anthonyp@localhost) by arapaho.cse.ucsc.edu (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA05824; Mon, 23 Aug 1999 11:07:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199908231807.LAA05824@arapaho.cse.ucsc.edu> To: support@cdrom.com, questions@freebsd.org Cc: anthonyp@cse.ucsc.edu subject: question on boot manager Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 11:07:30 PDT From: Anthony Perry Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I am having a problem installing the boot manager that shipped with the fbsd cdrom. I followed the directions given in the istallation: I run 'bootinst boot.bin'. For some reason I get an error 3 when updating the boot record on disk 0. Can I get some feedback on this problem? Tony *********************************************************************** Output from bootinst *********************************************************************** C:\fbsd>bootinst boot.bin Boot installer, version 1.7, Copyright (C) Serge Vakulenko This utility allows you to install new boot program on your hard disk. The usage is: bootinst [bootfile] It installs boot block from bootfile (default boot.bin) to the first drive and, if second drive is present, to the second drive. Old boot sectors are saved to bootsav.bin and boot2sav.bin respectively. You can copy and distribute this software free of charge, provided that sources are included. No warranty, of course. Continue with installation? (yes/no) y +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ¦ ¦Partition¦Can ¦Boot¦ Beginning ¦ Ending ¦ Relative¦Number of¦ ¦N¦ Type ¦Boot¦Part¦Head Cyl Sect¦Head Cyl Sect¦ Sectors ¦ Sectors ¦ +-+---------+----+----+---------------+---------------+---------+---------¦ ¦1¦ ????? ¦ yes¦ yes¦ 1 ¦ 0 ¦ 1 ¦254 ¦1021 ¦ 63 ¦ 63 ¦16498692 ¦ +-+---------+----+----+----+-----+----+----+-----+----+---------+---------¦ ¦2¦ empty ¦ no ¦ no ¦ 0 ¦ 0 ¦ 0 ¦ 0 ¦ 0 ¦ 0 ¦ 0 ¦ 0 ¦ +-+---------+----+----+----+-----+----+----+-----+----+---------+---------¦ ¦3¦ empty ¦ no ¦ no ¦ 0 ¦ 0 ¦ 0 ¦ 0 ¦ 0 ¦ 0 ¦ 0 ¦ 0 ¦ +-+---------+----+----+----+-----+----+----+-----+----+---------+---------¦ ¦4¦ empty ¦ no ¦ no ¦ 0 ¦ 0 ¦ 0 ¦ 0 ¦ 0 ¦ 0 ¦ 0 ¦ 0 ¦ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Are you sure you want to install new boot on disk 0? (yes/no) y Error 3 updating boot record on disk 0 +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ¦ ¦Partition¦Can ¦Boot¦ Beginning ¦ Ending ¦ Relative¦Number of¦ ¦N¦ Type ¦Boot¦Part¦Head Cyl Sect¦Head Cyl Sect¦ Sectors ¦ Sectors ¦ +-+---------+----+----+---------------+---------------+---------+---------¦ ¦1¦ 386bsd ¦ yes¦ yes¦ 1 ¦ 0 ¦ 1 ¦254 ¦1023 ¦ 63 ¦ 63 ¦16498692 ¦ +-+---------+----+----+----+-----+----+----+-----+----+---------+---------¦ ¦2¦ empty ¦ no ¦ no ¦ 0 ¦ 0 ¦ 0 ¦ 0 ¦ 0 ¦ 0 ¦ 0 ¦ 0 ¦ +-+---------+----+----+----+-----+----+----+-----+----+---------+---------¦ ¦3¦ empty ¦ no ¦ no ¦ 0 ¦ 0 ¦ 0 ¦ 0 ¦ 0 ¦ 0 ¦ 0 ¦ 0 ¦ +-+---------+----+----+----+-----+----+----+-----+----+---------+---------¦ ¦4¦ empty ¦ no ¦ no ¦ 0 ¦ 0 ¦ 0 ¦ 0 ¦ 0 ¦ 0 ¦ 0 ¦ 0 ¦ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Are you sure you want to install new boot on disk 1? (yes/no) n C:\fbsd> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message