Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 15:00:45 +0600 From: tyork@vt.edu (Thayer York) To: ejon@ll.mit.edu (Eric `two cats' Jones) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bootmanager problems Message-ID: <199509221901.MAA14449@freefall.freebsd.org>
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At 09:24 AM 9/20/95 -0400, Eric `two cats' Jones wrote: >I'm afraid we may be earning the wages of sin for having bought IDE-based >systems. There is something bogus about the way ATAPI CDROM's work (at >least mine). When I disconnect the CDROM from the IDE cable, my system >boots like a dream...even sees my 2nd IDE controller. IDE in general, I don't know. An IDE CD-ROM does seem to be at least a minor sin. I did try disconnecting the CD-ROM and doing a reboot. The BootEasy menu still only listed DOS and when I hit F5 I had the same problem as before. > So. We've narrowed the problem down to 1) Booteasy not correctly loading >the 2ndary (?) boot code, or 2) the secondary boot code not working >properly, in the presence of HD+CDROM on 2nd IDE controller. As I mentioned, in my case it doesn't seem to like booting from the 2nd IDE controller at all, although there was no trouble seeing it during the install. >>dept. at my school, Virginia Tech) let me ask a pretty basic question. If I >>can't get BootEasy to work, is it possible to set up the system to boot from >>a floppy and then somehow switch to using the the installation of FBSD that >>resides on the hard drive (so I don't have to keep that floppy in the entire >>time I'm using the system)? > >Yes. If you stick the install boot floppy in and boot your machine, it >will come up with a "Boot:" prompt. You could type 'wd(1,a)' (no quotes) >to that prompt and it'll _try_ to boot the kernel on your hard disk. Or >maybe that's not what you wanted to do. Were you hoping to boot a kernel >off the floppy and then switch root to wd1? I'm not sure...experts? That's exactly what I want to do - start from a floppy but boot the kernel from the hard disk. Now the problem is I don't have a boot floppy. The copy I got from the school came on a CD that they put together and it included a copy of a kernel and a DOS-based utility (fbsdboot.exe) to boot off a DOS medium. Is there some way to create an install floppy? -> Thayer
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