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From: Scott Johnson <srj@NSD.3Com.COM>
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Subject: HELP with booting FreeBSD and BootEasy
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Hi,

I'm having two problems that may or may not be related.

1) I can't get BootEasy (the Boot Manager that FreeBSD offers to
   install) to work.  I've tried making the FreeBSD partition, the DOS
   partition (from both FreeBSD and DOS FDISK) and *both* partitions
   "bootable", and I get the same response:

   Hitting F1 to F5 changes the prompt from Fn (where n is the
   "bootable" partition) to F?, and the prompt scrolls.  Nothing
   boots, no other keys have any effect.

2) When I boot from the boot floppy, and attempt to boot from sd0s2 by
   typing "hd(1,a)/kernel" at the boot floppy prompt, I get into a loop
   where I get the output "error: C:0 H:0 S:0"

I've installed a 200M DOS partition on sd0s1, and have the rest of the
disk partitioned for FreeBSD.

When I run the install program on the boot floppy, I can re-mount the
disks via the disklabel menu (the fsck seems to be happy with the data
on the HD) but I can't get into the HD filesystem, because I can't
boot the kernel.

System particulars:

Compaq Deskpro 386/25
1.08G Fujitsu 2694SQA connected via Adaptec 1522A controller
  partitioned 200M DOS on sd0s1, 809M FreeBSD on sd0s2
100Mb Conner IDE disk connected to Compaq Multifunction IDE controller
  partitioned 100% FreeBSD (used entire disk)
  (I've tried this with the IDE disk controller enabled, disabled, and 
  physically removed from the system) 
Trident TVGA 1Mb Video Card, Sony CPD1302 Monitor

What am I doing wrong here?  Haylp!

 --srj           How does the guy who drives the snowplow get to work?
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