From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 15 15:19:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA10489 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 15:19:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA10457 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 15:18:40 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id PAA06752; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 15:13:24 -0800 Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 15:13:24 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Welson Ho cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: handup after install In-Reply-To: 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 Fri, 15 Mar 1996, Welson Ho wrote: > 1) The boot disk is not working. I use both rawrite to write the boot > image and from view menu to make the boot disk, however, when I reboot > the machine, it just go ahead to C: drive. Try a new formatted floppy, and making sure the boot order is set to boot from drive a: first in BIOS setup. > 2) After install(no error message) I reboot the machine, and it hand > up after BIOS. It look like it destoey the MBR or FAT. I tre use > FDISK/MBR to replace the MBR but it still not working. I still can boot > the maching using boot disk, how can solve this problems. BTW, I select > 'don't touch MBR' option during setup. Try checking for the "active" flag on one of the partitions. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major