From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 22 14:00:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA22939 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 22 Feb 1998 14:00:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from host1.texramp.net (root@host1.texramp.net [209.144.20.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA22880 for ; Sun, 22 Feb 1998 14:00:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dbell@texramp.net) Received: from lizard (dbell.texramp.net [209.144.20.197]) by host1.texramp.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA28108 for ; Sun, 22 Feb 1998 16:06:52 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199802222206.QAA28108@host1.texramp.net> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Dana Bell" To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 15:56:54 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Install TROUBLE X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.42a) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Here is my problem: I can't run FreeBSD because every time I choose it > from the list the "Read Error" message comes up. The partition it is on is not > visible while in normal DOS and comes up as "Non-DOS" when I enter FDisk. What > do I do? Must I set the new partition to active for the system to work? Should I had a similar problem with the FreeBSD boot manager, but without the error message, just the hang. I ended up installing osbs (see in /tools), booted to DOS and selected FreeBSD as the active. You might try either or both. dbell@texramp.net | http://www.texramp.net/~dbell WebPageMaker - http://www.texramp.net/~dbell/pagemaker.html Disc Golf - http://www.texramp.net/~dbell/discgolf.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message