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Date:      Wed, 7 Feb 1996 10:21:56 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        NIMALIN@aol.com
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: free bsd doesnt boot fom the second (hard disk)drive!
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960207102011.476C-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <960207082130_315064945@mail06.mail.aol.com>

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On Wed, 7 Feb 1996 NIMALIN@aol.com wrote:

> I use a 486/sx with drive C of 80MB and drive D with 500MB (in DOS terms),
> and to drive D i've installed FreeBsd 2.0.5 succesfully.But when I boot the
> system system goes directly to DOS as it knows nothing about my BSD. SEE how
> sad is this?

Not uncommon tho...

> i've choose the boot manager option during the installation.Even after Itried
> wih
> wd(1,a)/kernel ,it didn't give me anything.Please help me.

If that didn't work, then the installation wasn't successful.  

Try deleting the partition and reinstalling.

I don't know why the bootmanager won't install.  You're the second or 
third person with this problem.

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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