Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 21:47:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "`~-_-~'" <gandersn@puc.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help Installing freeBSD with linux & dos; boot manager Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970922214559.6177L-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19970922212351.0072c704@mail.onlink.net>
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On Mon, 22 Sep 1997, `~-_-~' wrote: > I would appreciate some help with booting FreeBSD > I am installing freeBSD on a second hard disk and am not able to > boot it after installation. I run linux on the second partition on the first > disk and boot it, and dos/widnows(first part of first drive) with lilo on > the MBR. When I use BootEasy it reports one dos, and a ?, which wont boot. > likely becuase it is a large drive. does anyone know how to make lilo > boot FreeBSD ? Don't know about lilo. > or is there a way to boot a root filesystem with a floppy ?? Sure, type wd(1,a)/kernel at the Boot: prompt after booting the floppy. > or is there anything that could be done so that boot easy can find my > drives and boot all the operating systems install ??? Booteasy is pretty simplistic. If the geometry is wrong then it gets into trouble. You might try os-bs, in /tools on the CD or FTP site. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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