From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 14 21:33:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA28254 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 14 Aug 1996 21:33:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ime.net (ime.net [204.97.248.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA28245 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 1996 21:33:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kimiko.tcguy.net (buxton-1.ime.net [206.231.148.130]) by ime.net (8.7.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id AAA04231; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 00:33:04 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3212A8B6.4A9E@ime.net> Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 00:33:58 -0400 From: Gary Chrysler Reply-To: tcg@ime.net Organization: The Computer Guy X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b6 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mike@NetworX.ie CC: FreeBSD Support Subject: Re: MBR not working References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Michael Ryan wrote: > > Hi all, > > I installed FreeBSD 2.1R onto a Dell Pentium by first copying > the Walnut Creek CD-ROM stuff into c:\freebsd and doing the > installation from the DOS partition. Everything went very > smoothly and the system is up and running just fine. > > During installation, I chose to install the standard boot > manager (the default choice). > > Now, when I reset the machine and get the two choices > F1 DOS > F2 BSD > hitting F2 doesn't work. I just get the prompt again. > If I select F1, it works fine. > > I installed osbs135 off the CD to see if it would work, > but it doesn't either. When I select BSD as the boot > partition, it says "No operating system". > > I went through the initial part of the installation procedure > again, not changing the partition layout or anything, but > selecting the standard boot manager again, in the hope it would > stamp the MBR with good info, but it didn't. > I must boot from the floppy each time. > > Does anybody know how to get FreeBSD booting off the hard disk > via a boot manager? > > Thanks, > Mike > > --- IDE drive and the root slice (partition) is above cylinder 1024?? -Enjoy Gary ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Improve America's Knowledge... Share yours The Borg... Where minds meet (207) 929-3848