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From: zeeb@digitaladvantage.net (Russ Panula)
To: tcg@ime.net
Cc: mike@NetworX.ie, FreeBSD Support <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: MBR not working
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 10:02:03 -0600
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On Thu, 15 Aug 1996 09:15:30 -0400, Gary Chrysler <tcg@ime.net> wrote:

>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.
>
You mean you run something other than FBSD?  <gasp> ;-)

>-Enjoy
>Gary
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This sounds like a failed installation.  Do you get any error messages
while installing?  Try installing again and keep an eye on the virtual
consoles (alt-f2 and alt-f4 I believe).

Was there a reason you didn't install directly from the CD rather than
a DOS directory?

Russ