From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 3 13:44:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA03715 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 3 Feb 1996 13:44:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA03706 for ; Sat, 3 Feb 1996 13:44:44 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA02333; Sat, 3 Feb 1996 13:41:48 -0800 Date: Sat, 3 Feb 1996 13:41:47 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Michelle Brownsworth cc: questions@freebsd.com Subject: Re: Boot problem with new FreeBSD install In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Fri, 2 Feb 1996, Michelle Brownsworth wrote: > In preparation for installing FreeBSD, I bought a new Western Digital > 1.6 GB drive. It was to have one 528K DOS partition and the remaining > 1+ GB was to be allocated to FreeBSD. Since I have an IDE CD drive that > is unsupported, I XCOPIED the dists to the DOS partition's FreeBSD > directory, and did a FreeBSD install from DOS. I opted to have the > BootEasy boot manager installed in the boot blocks so I could boot > either DOS or FreeBSD. Unfortunately, I had an older non-translating > BIOS that was limited to 1024 cylinders (528K) without employing yet > another boot manager that would trick the BIOS. So, I bit the bullet > and upgraded to a translating BIOS. I'm going to drag this around for ref... Good choice on the BIOS upgrade. I detest the MBR translators. > After it was installed, I booted > the computer for the first time, got the BootEasy menu, and chose F2 > (FreeBSD). But instead of booting FreeBSD, the menu kept reappearing > with F? as the default. This is why I don't like booteasy: it did this to me. I remember hearing the solution is to set your FreeBSD partition as "active" on the second disk, using FDISK. Someone correct me, please. Hope this helps. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major