From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 15 04:22:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA02913 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 04:22:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sam.networx.ie (dublin-ts10-204.indigo.ie [194.125.133.204]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA02904 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 04:22:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mip1.networx.ie (mip1.networx.ie [194.9.12.1]) by sam.networx.ie (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA25701; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 10:13:12 +0100 X-Organisation: I.T. NetworX Ltd X-Business: Network Consultancy and Training X-Address: 67 Merrion Square, Dublin 2, Ireland X-Voice: +353-1-676-8866 X-Fax: +353-1-676-8868 Received: from mike.networx.ie by mip1.networx.ie Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 10:07:41 BST From: Michael Ryan Reply-To: mike@NetworX.ie Subject: Re: MBR not working To: tcg@ime.net Cc: FreeBSD Support Message-Id: Priority: Normal Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 15 Aug 1996 00:33:58 -0400 Gary Chrysler wrote: > > 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. > > Does anybody know how to get FreeBSD booting off the hard disk > > via a boot manager? > IDE drive and the root slice (partition) is above cylinder 1024?? Good thinking Gary but, no, the DOS partition is only 130MB and FreeBSD's / is entirely below 1024 cyls. Any other ideas? By the way, when configuring osbs135, it does recognise the FreeBSD partition (it says partition 0 = DOS, partition 1 = 386BSD). Mike ---