From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 8 15:38:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA26425 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 8 Jun 1998 15:38:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gatekeeper-ext.nabisco.com (gatekeeper.nabisco.com [162.117.162.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA26336 for ; Mon, 8 Jun 1998 15:37:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from AllenEr@nabisco.com) Received: (root@localhost) by gatekeeper-ext.nabisco.com (8.8.4/8.6.9) id SAA17052 for ; Mon, 8 Jun 1998 18:38:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from unknown(159.164.189.40) by gatekeeper-10mb via smap (V1.3) id sma017043; Mon Jun 8 18:38:24 1998 Received: by nabisco.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.1960.3) id ; Mon, 8 Jun 1998 18:37:06 -0400 Message-ID: <01CB3CD8F39DCF11A6E20001FA3273FD0311FCB7@NS_MSG_TC.nabisco.com> From: "Allen, Eric" To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Booting from my hard drive Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1998 18:36:58 -0400 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.1960.3) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG To whom it may concern, I attempted to install FreeBSD this weekend from the CDs. I couldn't seem to get the partitioning utility (FIPS? - I'm on the road now so I don't have the PC or Docs in front of me) to come up on my machine so I used DOS-FDISK. This wiped out my hard drive and I was prepared for that and went to my backups. In order to restore my DOS/Window's 3.1 data I booted from a floopy reformatted the DOS partition and copied the data to it. My machine still won't boot from the C: drive though. On the FreeBSD front, I went through the installation process and at the very end it failed because it couldn't recognize the CD. However, the BootManager seemed to have loaded because when I turn the machine on (with no boot floopy) I get a choice "1 for DOS and 2 for BSD" it's when I hit 1 the machine doesn't seem to go anywhere. I expected it to try to boot from the DOS C: partition. Can you help? I will spend more time with the BSD/CD and the manual. The DOS C: boot issue has me stumped though. Please send me any suggestions you may have. My company is talking anounced potential layoffs today so I need to get my PC up to work on my resume. Thanks, Eric Allen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message