From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 18 14:29:55 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA24211 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 18 Jan 1999 14:29:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cepheid.physics.gla.ac.uk (cepheid.physics.gla.ac.uk [130.209.45.251]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA24203 for ; Mon, 18 Jan 1999 14:29:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from flavell@a5.ph.gla.ac.uk) Received: from a5.ph.gla.ac.uk (a5.ph.gla.ac.uk [194.36.1.167]) by cepheid.physics.gla.ac.uk (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id WAA19135; Mon, 18 Jan 1999 22:29:45 GMT Received: from localhost (flavell@localhost) by a5.ph.gla.ac.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA02601; Mon, 18 Jan 1999 22:29:44 GMT Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 22:29:43 +0000 (GMT) From: "Alan J. Flavell" Reply-To: A.Flavell@physics.gla.ac.uk To: Eric Hodel cc: freebsd questions Subject: Re: New installation - some points and a problem In-Reply-To: <36A38A40.28547212@seattleu.edu> Message-ID: X-antiSpam: Do not send me unsolicited commercial email MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Eric Hodel wrote: > You want 1:wd(1,a)kernel in order to boot. Oh gosh, how dumb, I misunderstood the counting. > wd0 is your 100MB dos disk, wd1 is > your 408MB FreeBSD disk, and wd2 would be on wdc1 (which you don't have/have > configured.) How true! I still get the "RTC BIOS diagnostic error 17" message on bootup, but now it's flying (having booted from diskette and followed the above prescription). > In regards to the boot setup you need to install the boot manager on both wd0 > and wd1. You'll have to visit the partition editor and set the proper slices > bootable in order to use the boot manager. Well, now I've logged on as root, I've executed /stand/sysinstall, I've gone to the post-configuration option and I've started up the Fdisk thingy and fiddled about. It looks as if with your extra clues I must have hit the right spot: when I boot from hard disk now, LILO has gone, and I'm offered F1: DOS F5: disk 2 If I hit F5, I can boot freebsd. Looks as if I'm flying. Many thanks for your help. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message