From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 3 14:02:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA07224 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 3 Sep 1997 14:02:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from email.sjsu.edu (email.sjsu.edu [130.65.3.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA07217 for ; Wed, 3 Sep 1997 14:02:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from athens.sjsu.edu (athens [130.65.3.10]) by email.sjsu.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA24667 for ; Wed, 3 Sep 1997 14:01:50 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 3 Sep 1997 14:01:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Robert Perry Booth X-Sender: rbooth@athens.sjsu.edu To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: install problems :( 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 Hi, I am a new freeBSD user (or at least trying to become one) and am having problems getting the kernel to boot. In a nutshell, here is info on my PC and the problem I am experiencing. Any help in getting me up and running will be greatly appreciated! PC Specs: NEC Ready 9624 with 133MHZ Pentium, 16M RAM, 8X CD-ROM, 2GB IDE HD (Windows 95, primary), 120MB HD (freeBSD almost, secondary), floppy, etc. Problem: Secondary drive is setup as Slave drive on "primary" IDE interface, and on intial boot from CD-ROM (FreeBSD 2.2.2, June 1997) all device conflicts are removed and only relevant devices on my system remain as "Active" devices. I then am able to go through the installation process without problem installing the "User" distribution, finish configuration, reboot and I then get the following: F1 - dos F5 - disk 2 F? I try to select disk 2 but, I the another prompt as follows: F1 - BSD F5 - disk 1 F? This continues on toggling back and forth. I hope this is enough information for you to provide some feedback. Again, any help will be much appreciated. Thanks, Robert _ _ Robert P. Booth Graduate Student, CMPE email: rbooth@email.sjsu.edu