Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 09:15:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Ronald P. Jensen" <rjensen@inet.att.co.kr> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help needed on install from DOS partition Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971014091306.2375E-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <01bcd794$27faa2c0$95c7f8cb@default>
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On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, Ronald P. Jensen wrote: > Thanks Doug... I figured out that "A" partitioned the drive. I am still > having one problem though. I can't get the system to boot. I installed the > system as the directions state...with the boot manager...etc. But when I get > out to try to run it..or boot it as it may. I get nothing but the original > Windows default. I looked at the hardward.txt that > is included. But I assigned the drive geometry...etc. And still no sign of > hitting F1 etc... to start OS boot up once the machine is turned on and goes > through the ususal startup. Is there another program..such as System > Commander that I need to access the FreeBSD environment? I'm looking at the original message and noticed that this is going onto a second hard disk. Sometimes the boot manager doesn't install itself to the first disk. So I think you need to do this yourself and you should be well. It's called `booteasy' and is comprised of two files, bootinst.exe and boot.bin, that reside on the tools/ directory on the FTP site or CDROM. Just grab both, boot to DOS (using a boot floppy preferably, if none is available and you're on win95 safe mode boot to command line and use the `lock' command to disable the boot sector locking) and run bootinst. Next reboot you should be able to select the second disk and from there BSD. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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