From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 15 06:15:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA06742 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 06:15:19 -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 GAA06737 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 06:15:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kimiko.tcguy.net (buxton-10.ime.net [206.231.148.139]) by ime.net (8.7.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id JAA20657; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 09:15:13 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <321322F2.53AF@ime.net> Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 09:15:30 -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: > > 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). Naw, Not really. Hmm. Sorry. Failed install is all that I can think of. Anyone else have any ideas? I don't belive in multi-os boots so I don't use such tools. But then again I have enough systems to cover all the OS's/NOS's I choose to run. -Enjoy Gary ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Improve America's Knowledge... Share yours The Borg... Where minds meet (207) 929-3848