From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 18 08:38:14 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id IAA06299 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 18 Aug 1995 08:38:14 -0700 Received: from grad.csee.usf.edu (grad.csee.usf.edu [131.247.1.1]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA06280 for ; Fri, 18 Aug 1995 08:38:09 -0700 Received: (server@localhost) by grad.csee.usf.edu (8.6.12/8.6.5) id LAA07079; Fri, 18 Aug 1995 11:38:04 -0400 Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 11:38:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Server X-Sender: server@grad To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Help Installing FreeBSD 2.0 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello, I just purchased a FreeBSD 2.0 CDROM from a store, and am having problems installing... Specifically, I cannot seem to get FreeBSD to boot from my second IDE drive. I install the boot manager on my master drive, go through the partitioning process for the slave drive: 200 megs for DOS, 200 megs for FreeBSD (I make the BSD partition bootable), make the assignments for /root and /swap, and procede. Upon reboot, boot manager asks for F1 for DOS or F5 for drive 2. I select drive 2. A submenu comes up asking for DOS, FreeBSD, or Drive 1. I of course select BSD, where I then get the boot prompt. I type in "wd(1,a)/kernel" as prompted in the instructions, to boot off the second drive, but the system freezes... (The little spinning character doesn't even move) No disk activity. What shall I do? My hardware: AMD DX4-120 SIS471 based motherboard Diamond Stealth 32 (I'm gunna have fun getting X setup, aren't I) 8 megs o RAM Quantum FireBall 1080A - master Western Digital 420 - slave Promise 2300+ Please help!!! Thanks in advance, Rob server@babbage.csee.usf.edu