From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 21 17:00:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA01852 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 17:00:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from night.primate.wisc.edu (night.primate.wisc.edu [144.92.43.19]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA01846 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 17:00:16 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dubois@localhost) by night.primate.wisc.edu (8.8.2/8.8.2) id TAA22388; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 19:00:56 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199611220100.TAA22388@night.primate.wisc.edu> Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 19:00:56 -0600 From: dubois@primate.wisc.edu (Paul DuBois) To: sithoa@ecs.csus.edu (Allen Sitho) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: System Commander 3.0 and FreeBSD 2.1.5 In-Reply-To: ; from Allen Sitho on Nov 21, 1996 15:09:19 -0800 References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.47 Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Allen Sitho writes: > I have installed System Commander and was trying to install > FreeBSD 2.1.5. The installation went fine; however, when I try to boot > FreeBSD using the menu I get the message "Read Error". It seems like > the system searches the a: for a while and then gave up. I installed > using a CD but can't find the file atapi.flp so I used boot.flp. I have > tried almost everything (install straight from the CD; write to the > MBR; uninstall System Commander ...). I am trying to boot it off the > second EIDE drive. The first EIDE is win NT. Please help me if you have > any clue as I am really under the gun to do this. Thanks a bunch! > (oh, i use Walnu Creek CD) I don't think you can boot FreeBSD off the second IDE drive. I tried installing on a second drive, too, but I couldn't ever get it to boot correctly. I take it you want to use the second drive because your entire first drive is a single NT partition. I had a situation like that, and used Partition Magic to shrink the partition (running it from a DOS boot floppy), which gave me space to put a FreeBSD partition on the first drive. It's not necessary to write the MBR during the FreeBSD install; when you restart, System Commander will notice a new system in the partition. I don't remember that I had to do anything special to get it to present that partition as a boot choice. -- Paul DuBois dubois@primate.wisc.edu Home page: http://www.primate.wisc.edu/people/dubois Software: http://www.primate.wisc.edu/software