From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 24 12:39:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA03110 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 12:39:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA03089 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 12:39:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA26405; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 12:38:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 12:38:34 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Ernie Becker cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot Manager In-Reply-To: <000d01bd40a9$029dd230$68507e8b@becker.dallas.ds.adp.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Please wrap your lines at about 70 characters. Thanks. On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Ernie Becker wrote: > I loaded BSD on a 486. I Created a small 20 meg DOS partition. I > loaded CD drivers for a matshita CD-ROM and was able to run install > directly from the CD and install it in the remaining unused partition. okay. > I skipped over the Active drivers screen, despite 23 conflicts. okay, it speeds the load time if you remove the devices you don't have. > The load was flawless. Once completed I wasn't sure how to make a > smooth exit from the install program. It's as if my only option was to > Exit, and answer the question are you sure you want to exit? That would be the correct method. > Once I do, the system reboots, and prompts me to answer F1 for DOS or F2 > for BSD. It'll take DOS, but won't take F2 for BSD. It keeps prompting > me to set the default. Do you know what's up? Sounds like bad geometry, which shouldn't be. Try booting the boot floppy and at the Boot: prompt type `wd(0,a)/kernel'. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message