Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 13:56:11 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: eck@sc10.dseg.ti.com (Terry Eck (@s704)) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org, eck@sc10.dseg.ti.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD Install but will not boot! Message-ID: <199604022056.NAA17032@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <9604021822.AA06653@sc10.dseg.ti.com> from "Terry Eck (@s704)" at Apr 2, 96 12:22:02 pm
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> Earlier this moring i sent a request for help to this mail list but I may > have addressed it wrong since I have not gotten a reply. The following is > a brief description of my problem. > > I've installed FreeBSD v2.1 via the Walnut Creek cdrom. The target disk > was the 2nd hard drive. I selected the entire disk for install. I choose > not to install any boot manager since I use OS/2's bootmanager to boot > DOS, OS/2, Linux and hopefully BSD. > > After install the machine rebooted and locked up with a 2 line message > on the screen in very large letters. Next I booted OS/2 from floppy and > reinstalled the bootmanager (somehow the BSD install defined the boot > partition as non-startable). > > Rebooting I selected the partition with FreeBSD and got the Boot: prompt. > Since I need to specify the port address I entered -c<CR> and the computer > started with a single | character instead of the series |/-\|/-\ and the > computer halted. I had to do a hard reboot. When installing to a second disk, don't install the boot manager using the FreeBSD install program. Instead, download (or get of of the CDROM) the DOS installation version of the boot manager, and install it on the second drive from DOS. If the OS/2 boot manager allows booting from another drive, then it will load the boot manager on the second drive, which will then let you start FreeBSD. Unfortunately, the deivce syntax at the "boot:" prompt has recently changed, sho I don't know what to tell you there, other than the sd/hd/wd arguments with various major drive numbers... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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