From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 22 12:22:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA14981 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 12:22:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA14966 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 12:22:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA01105; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 12:23:39 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 12:23:39 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Justin Ashworth cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19961121004335.0072c310@cs.montana.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 20 Nov 1996, Justin Ashworth wrote: > OK, here's my situation: I've installed FreeBSD numerous times before, but > never on a dedicated drive. I had been using a partition of my IDE drive > before. I just recently bought a SCSI drive that I'd like to put FreeBSD on. > I can get through the install fine and everything, but when I try to boot > with booteasy it just keeps giving me the boot options and never boots into > BSD. However, I can still boot into Win 95. I tried using the OS boot select > program from the /pub/FreeBSD/tools directory, but that only gives me an > error message saying that there is no OS on my SCSI disk. I can boot into > Win 95 with that boot loader as well. Any ideas? My IDE drive (Win 95) is my > primary and my SCSI drive (FreeBSD) is recognized at boot time as DOS drive > D: (or so my Adaptec would like to think). Can you boot it from the install floppy and typing sd(0,a)/kernel at the Boot: prompt? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major