From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 7 10:25:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA16873 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 7 Feb 1996 10:25:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA16866 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 1996 10:25:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA00509; Wed, 7 Feb 1996 10:21:56 -0800 Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 10:21:56 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: NIMALIN@aol.com cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: free bsd doesnt boot fom the second (hard disk)drive! In-Reply-To: <960207082130_315064945@mail06.mail.aol.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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