From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 22 21:47:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA15877 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 21:47:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu ([128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA15870 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 21:47:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA06346; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 21:47:20 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 21:47:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "`~-_-~'" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help Installing freeBSD with linux & dos; boot manager In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19970922212351.0072c704@mail.onlink.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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