Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 12:12:28 -0400 From: Colin West <cwest03@snet.net> To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Problem getting FreeBSD to boot Message-ID: <37949FEB.D57D72F5@snet.net>
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Having installed FreeBSD I cannot get it to boot and have no
doubt it's my ignorance that's causing the problem.
I have two disk drives set up thus:
Disk 1 -- Maxtor 1.2 gb drive C: Primary FAT Windows 95 Bootable
D: Logical FAT
(data only)
E: unformatted
F: unformatted
Primary
BootManager Startable
(Note: E: & F: are only there because of the way I had
originally installed OS/2. They take about 1 mb each and simply
bump up the drive letters. It's a long story....)
Disk 2 -- Maxtor 8.4 gb drive G: Logical HPFS OS/2 Bootable
H: Logical HPFS
(data)
I: Logical HPFS
(data)
Freespace
(lots of it!)
Primary
type A5 (FreeBSD) 2.5 gb @ the end of disk
I noticed that I can only specify the first partition on Drive 2
as bootable. The OS/2 FDISK utility will not let me specify any
other drive as bootable. I had hoped that, by installing Booteasy
with FBSD, I would be able to get it up & running; alas, no.
So, am I asking the impossible? I have the Maxtor Disk Overdrive
(or whatever it's called) that allows the BIOS to address large
disks but should FreeBSD be installed within a certain cylinder
range? I am unclear on this even after re-reading Greg Lehey's
excellent book.
Also, after the install completed and the machine re-booted I
could not get it to boot from the hard drive at all; The Disk
Overdrive startup gives me the chance to press the space bar to
boot from a floppy. It was as if I had done this and the machine
would wait for me to insert a disk and press any key. By
re-running the OS/2 install to a command prompt and using the
FDISK I can fix it (mark bootmanager as startable). Then the
Booteasy menu comes up,
F1 - DOS (windows)
F3 - ?? (Boot manager)
F5 - Disk 1
So, what did I do wrong (or completely fail to read and
comprehend)?
TIA,
Colin
--
Colin West
cwest03@snet.net
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