From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 26 21:39:10 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id VAA04464 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 26 Nov 1995 21:39:10 -0800 Received: from koala.scott.net (root@koala.scott.net [204.181.147.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA04454 for ; Sun, 26 Nov 1995 21:38:58 -0800 Received: from dialup81.scott.net (dialup81.scott.net [205.241.3.81]) by koala.scott.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id XAA22169 for ; Sun, 26 Nov 1995 23:38:47 -0600 Message-Id: <199511270538.XAA22169@koala.scott.net> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Jason Gilbert" To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 26 Nov 1995 23:38:49 +0000 Subject: 2.1 Installation / Boot Manager Reply-to: jason@homewood.net X-Confirm-Reading-To: jason@homewood.net X-pmrqc: 1 Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.22) Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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/