From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 8 12:24:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA18151 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 12:24:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from EPAIBM.RTPNC.EPA.GOV (epaibm.rtpnc.epa.gov [134.67.180.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA18126 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 12:24:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from EPAIBM.RTPNC.EPA.GOV by EPAIBM.RTPNC.EPA.GOV (IBM MVS SMTP V3R1) with BSMTP id 1667; Tue, 08 Oct 96 15:24:55 EST Message-ID: <"96-10-08-13:41:20.32*MAQ"@NCCIBM1.BITNET> Date: Tue, 08 Oct 96 13:41 EDT From: "Mike Lewis, Lockheed Martin" To: FreeBSD Technical Support Subject: FreeBSD installation Question Sender: owner-questions@FREEBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi. I am attempting to install FreeBSD 2.2 960501-SNAP on an Intel-clone 80486 DX2-66. I have three physical Drives, which for various reasons have five DOS partitions on them. The slave physical Drive on the primary EIDE controller has enough unallocated space for a 650M Free-BSD partition. I am performing the installation from the primary DOS partition on the master physical Drive on the primary EIDE controller. This appears to work fine, but I do not have FreeBSD on floppy or CD. I am installing FreeBSD onto the second physical drive, so I use the "C" option during the "create-partition" phaze. Everything appears to function correctly. I request that the installation procedure install your FreeBSD boot manager. When installation is complete, and the reboot occurs, the boot manager fires up as I would expect. Option "F1" is listed to boot DOS which does in fact work properly. However, *no* option appears to boot FreeBSD from the non-DOS partition on the second physical drive. What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance, Mike Lewis <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> < But let your communication be < > < Yea, yea; nay, nay: for whatsoever < maq@epaibm.rtpnc.epa.gov > < is more than these cometh of evil. < maq@nccibm1.bitnet > < -- Matthew 101:100101 < > <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>