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Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 16:58:41 BST
From: Michael Ryan <mike@NetworX.ie>
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Subject: MBR not working
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Hi all,

I installed FreeBSD 2.1R onto a Dell Pentium by first copying
the Walnut Creek CD-ROM stuff into c:\freebsd and doing the
installation from the DOS partition.  Everything went very
smoothly and the system is up and running just fine.

During installation, I chose to install the standard boot
manager (the default choice).

Now, when I reset the machine and get the two choices
F1 DOS
F2 BSD
hitting F2 doesn't work.  I just get the prompt again.
If I select F1, it works fine.

I installed osbs135 off the CD to see if it would work,
but it doesn't either.  When I select BSD as the boot
partition, it says "No operating system".

I went through the initial part of the installation procedure
again, not changing the partition layout or anything, but
selecting the standard boot manager again, in the hope it would
stamp the MBR with good info, but it didn't.
I must boot from the floppy each time.

Does anybody know how to get FreeBSD booting off the hard disk
via a boot manager?


Thanks,
Mike
<mike@NetworX.ie>
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