From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 7 15:47:09 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id PAA21087 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 7 Jun 1995 15:47:09 -0700 Received: from witch.win.net (witch.win.net [204.215.209.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id PAA21072 for ; Wed, 7 Jun 1995 15:47:07 -0700 Received: by witch.win.net id AA04064 (5.65/1.35 for ); Wed, 7 Jun 95 18:46:06 -0400 Received: by win.net!anigma; Wed, 07 Jun 1995 15:35:30 X-Mailer: WinNET Mail, v2.51 Message-Id: <20@anigma.win.net> Reply-To: andy@anigma.win.net (Mr. Andrew Micheals) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wed, 07 Jun 1995 15:35:30 Subject: installation problem From: andy@anigma.win.net (Mr. Andrew Micheals) Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk To FreeBSD-hackers 6/7/95 Recently purchased the FreeBSD ver 2.0 and have experienced an installation problem in that upon doing the installation, rebooting then pointing on the boot manager, I get an error message, saying (error loading operating system). This is my first experience with unix and dont have that much experience with computers in general, though I did build this scsi sys which the BSD is installed, a brief discription of this sys is, 486 2-66,VL Bus, Adaptec 2842 controller, Diamond Viper VLB video card, SoundBlaster 16 ASP sound card with Rouland Canves SCB-7 daughter board, Maxtor 540sl C:\drive all dos, Micropolis 1926 D:\drive 737 mb dos and 1321 mb for BSD, Teac 1.2 a:\drive, Teac 1.44 B:\drive, Plextor DM 3028 CD Rom E:\drive, DataFax 14.4 internal modem. The machine has MS DOS 6.2 running off the c:\drive and a secondary partition on number 1 slot of d:\drive with BSD on slot 2 of d:\drive. Had previously sent a message to Freebsd-questions and recieved a reply from Brian Litzinger, @MediaCity and apreciate his quick response but was not able to quite understand what he ment or how to go about doing what he was saying, have since managed to get a little ways further toward getting up and running with that problem overcome and now this problem to get past. Will give a quick rundown of what information could be important from the fdisk editor: 1. Boot?=No Type=Primary 'big'DOS (>32MB) Phys=(c0/h2/s18..c575/h106/s22) Sector=(63..1510109) Size=737 MB, 575 Cylinders + 104 tracts =5 Sectors 2. Boot?=Yes Type=FreeBSD/Net/386BSD Phys=9c575/h106/s23..c1023/h113/s19)Sectors (1510110..4216171) Size=1321 MB, 1032 Cylinders + 6 tracts +20 Sectors Also have noticed that the boot manager has options, the one I am using is F-5 Disk2, should it be something F-2 FreeBSD ? Would apreciate some help, unable to locate anyone in my area with any unix experience. A phone number and the possibility of having someone talk me through installation would probably solve any additional problems, evev though it might be long distance, a small price to pay to avert all the anoyence. Will look for a reply. Thank You Andy@anigma.win.net