Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 12:52:07 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Dave Cash <dcash@gnofn.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation Problem Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960130124755.1205B-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960129151542.4014A-100000@www.gnofn.org>
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On Mon, 29 Jan 1996, Dave Cash wrote: [skipped] > finally work. However, the boot manager does not seem to work. The only > noticeable change to the system after BSD has been installed is that the > C: partition on GRAMPS has been made inactive and my only choice is to > boot from flopopy and use fdisk to set that partition to be active, since > my computer will not boot from a fixed disk without an active partition. That's a common occurance, happened to me. You had the right fix. > And in my BIOS, my only boot options are "A:, C:" or "C:, A:". And when > I set the C: partition to be the active partition, my computer just boots > right into Windows 95 and doesn't seem to be aware that the might FreeBSD > is even in its midst... Did you install the Boot Manager? Windows 95 may be interfereing, a friend of mine yesterday reminded me that win95 has some anti-bootvirus protection, and installing a boot manager may not make it happy. > Any ideas? The only thing I have not tried is to repartition GRAMPS so > that C: becomes about 382 MB and I make a 100 MB partition for the core > stuff of FreeBSD (could I get away with a smaller space?) on GRAMPS so > that both are able to boot from GRAMPS. Then I could devote the large > partition on PEANUT to the rest of FreeBSD...so should I go to the > trouble to repartition GRAMPS or is this not the answer? Any help would > be appreciated. That would work, but win95 will still complain about a boot sector problem. (maybe, haven't tried it) You can boot freebsd from the floppy, ie typing at Boot: wd(1,a)/kernel A friend and I did that for a while. He's still doing it because of the possible win95 trouble, and I installed OS/2's Boot Manager and it works great. Hope this helps. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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