From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 16 20:37:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from copland.udel.edu (copland.udel.edu [128.175.13.92]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 965F514DCF for ; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 20:37:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from papalia@UDel.Edu) Received: from morgaine (host75-157.student.udel.edu [128.175.75.157]) by copland.udel.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA05537; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 23:37:06 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <4.1.19991116233709.0095e830@mail.udel.edu> X-Sender: papalia@mail.udel.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 23:37:17 -0500 To: clatter@crosswinds.net From: John Subject: Re: I hope nobody blows a gasket, but... Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hey will... Not sure exactly where your problem is going wrong... I've read your text a couple times and get lost in the circles. You said a lot, but I don't think you provided much in the end :) Did you actually succeed in getting FreeBSD to install (not boot, but install) to your second drive, or not? And what boot manager are you trying to use? --John >I have a technical question in regards to installing FreeBSD. Right >now, i am suffering in this stultified Windows environment and need >help. I've managed to figure out and successfully set up just about >everything with FreeBSD except for one, glaring aspect. I cannot >install the boot manager to my first hard drive, nor can i access the >boot sector using the FreeBSD set up program. The truth is, i have >installed FreeBSD on my second hard drive. Well, i've thus far had to >reinstall at least 15 or more times in the past 3 days because i cannot >get FreeBSD to boot up. I've tried editing the BIOS to boot from my D: >drive (my second drive where FreeBSD is located), but it didn't work >(and that makes life harder for other people using the computer who >don't want to use FreeBSD anyway). I've tried numerous ways, inside the >fdisk/partitioning part of the setup utility to do this as well. The >main problem is, that the boot manager is ineffectual. It does >nothing. I am not able to INSTALL the system on my second drive, then >go back, change the selected drive to my first one, and INSTALL the boot >manager into the boot sector of my first hard drive (where windows, etc. >is located). This is driving me insane and i sincerely hope that some >kind soul out there can help me, and that i will not be abused for >asking this question. The documentation i have read on the matter (in >"The Complete FreeBSD 3" book and in the Website's numerous sections) >haven't helped me one iota. Every one of their suggestions could not be >implemented. So anyway, i'll shutup now, but the long and the short of >it is: Can i go back and install the boot manager into the boot sector >of my first hard drive, (drive C:), after installing FreeBSD on my >second physical drive, (drive D:). And, fyi, the C: drive is the >primary master and the D: drive is the primary slave. I thank anyone >who can help me in this matter. > > >will > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message