Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 16:59:35 -0800 (PST) From: Rudy Gireyev <rgireyev@yahoo.com> To: dbsmall@ttl.pactel.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: david.small@usa.net Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2.2 Message-ID: <19980123005935.13640.rocketmail@send1b.yahoomail.com>
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---dbsmall@ttl.pactel.com wrote: > > I've gotten some good advice from a couple of folks (Matthew Hagerty, > and someone else whose name is now on my machine at home, and which I > forget...Rudy at Yahoo?) > > Unfortunately, I still don't have FreeBSD running, and I've once again > rendered my system unusable. > > Here's what I've got: > A Dell Pentium II, with SDRAM, and an AGP video card. The motherboard > has 2 IDE controllers on it. > The primary controller has only an IBM EIDE Hard Drive on it. > The secondary controller has an IDE ZIP drive first (master), and an > ATAPI CDROM second (slave). > (Actually, both the ZIP drive and the CDROM Drive use cable select to > determine whether they're master or slave... and neither came with > enough jumpers to set them any other way. > The 6.4 GB HD has 3 'partitions' on it: the first is NTFS, and boots NT > 4.0 workstation. The second is FAT. The third (the last 1.2 GB of the > disk) is where I plan to put FreeBSD. I also intend to be able to boot > into either system. This disk has LBA enabled. > > Here's what I've tried so far: > 1) Boot off the CDROM: Install never gets to sysinstall. Hangs after > probing for devices. Identifies the CDROM drive as wd1 (since it's on > the IDE controller #2?) (I gave it 15 minutes....) > 2) Boot off of an ATAPI CDROM boot floppy. Same results as #1 > 3) Boot off the CDROM. During the install process, remove wd1 from the > kernel configs. Makes it to the menu screen, but is unable to install, > since it can't find the CDROM drive. > 4) Copied the entire contents of FreeBSD 2.2.2 from WC CDROM onto the > second partition. (the first FAT partition). David, is it FAT16 or FAT32? Currently FreeBSD will work with FAT16 only. > Booted into DOS via a > bootable DOS floppy. This partition is identified as the first DOS > partition, so DOS calls it C: (even though NT called it F:). Doesn't matter to FreeBSD. > Run the > Install program from DOS (telling it to install from a DOS partition). > Tell sysinstall "None" when asked which MBR to use (not to use BootEasy, > for example). Not only did the install fail (couldn't find the disk at > some point), It was probably looking for c:\freebsd directory. David do me a favor. Boot into dos with your floppy. Find a new floppy disk 1.44M. Run fdimage passing boot.flp as parameter. On your FAT partition create a subdirectory named FREEBSD off the C drive so that the final directory reads C:\FREEBSD and copy the entire bin partition there the name and the contents. Boot from the FreeBSD floppy and then select installing from DOS as your source option. > but it screwed up my MBR for NT. That is, the drive seems > to think the FreeBSD partition is the boot partition, at least, cause > rebooting results in the endless boot: prompts... I do not know how to restore the NT partition manager. > > One note: Mr. Hagerty has suggested that I put the CDROM drive on the > primary controller. Unfortunately, the physical configuration prohibits > me from splitting up the ZIP and the CDROM. So the only way I could do > that, is if I put the Hard drive on the second controller (which I > haven't tried...) > > Note two; I don't have 2.2.5, or I'd be installing it. > > My questions: > > 1) Is there a simple way to restore my MBR for NT? Using NT's Emergency > Restore Disk doesn't seem to work. Can I use FDISK? > 2) When I install FreeBSD 2.2.2, should I tell it to use BootEASY? the > other Bootloader? None? > 3) Can I put the HD on the second controller, and put the ZIP + CDROM on > the first. Does anyone think this will help? > 4) Any other big tips? > > > When responding, please cc: david.small@usa.net... > > thanks, > > -David > --------------------------------------- > David B. Small > Telesis Technologies Laboratory > http://www.ttl.pactel.com/~dbsmall > > > _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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