Date: Sun, 26 Nov 1995 23:38:49 +0000 From: "Jason Gilbert" <jason@homewood.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: 2.1 Installation / Boot Manager Message-ID: <199511270538.XAA22169@koala.scott.net>
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I just finished installing 2.1 over the internet using PPP. Very interesting. I had just gotten a new 1Gig Western Digital harddrive and chose to partition the whole drive to Freebsd. I also have another drive which runs dos/win that is designated as the master drive. In the installation program I chose to install the Boot manager but never saw anything else about it. when I reboot the system without a disk in the floppy drive, the system goes through the normal BIOS etc. and then outputs two lines about c: and d: harddrives installed (not verbatim). After that, the light on the floppy drive comes on and nothing else happens. I can however boot using the boot.flp and then at the boot: prompt typing wd(1,a)/kernel. This seems to boot the system and things work. My long question turns out to be; Where is the boot manager? Also, can I run the installation program on boot.flp again without corrupting the files already on the drive? I greatly appreciate any help. Jason Jason Gilbert jason@scott.net/jason@homewood.net http://www.homewood.net/
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