Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 10:52:19 +0200 From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> To: John Yingling <jyingling@skyenet.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Booting Message-ID: <331E85C3.44B9@barcode.co.il> References: <199703060427.XAA26311@skye2.skyenet.net>
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John Yingling wrote: > > Hi! my name is John. I have just received FreeBSD and I am tring to > install it on a second drive ie: drive 0 - C:500M DOS, E:500M DOS, F:600M > DOS, G:CD drive. drive 1 - D:40M DOS & 500M BSD(this is my FreeBSD slice > of the second drive). I can not make the system boot BSD. I have tried > setting up the boot manager but when I do nothing will boot. I am new to > Unix and I do not totally understand harddrive configurations and > bootstraps. Is there someone that can give me detail instructions as to > how to get my system working? All I really care about is that I use one > drive for DOS and the other for BSD. Preferably the 1.6 G drive (drive 0) > for DOS and the 540 M drive (drive1) for BSD. > > Thanks very much for any help anyone can give. > > John A more detailed description of teh sysmptoms and your configuration would be helpful. I assume your drives are IDE and that you intend to use BootEasy (the boot manager that comes with FreeBSD by default). You install FreeBSD onto the second disk as usual and then install BootEasy manually on the first disk by running bootinst.exe from DOS (this utility is on the CD/ftp site in the tools directory). Then when you boot you'll get something like: F1 - DOS F5 - Disk 2 Press F5 and FreeBSD's Boot: prompt should appear. If your second disk is the slave on the primary interface, just press enter at that point. If it's the master on the secondary channel, type: 1:wd(2,a)/kernel If you find you have to type that then there is a remedy that will let it boot with the defaults, but I guess it's best you get a basic system working first. If you have that you may want to search the mail archives for "cannot mount root" and you'll find countless comments on this issue. Good luck, Nadav
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