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Date:      Fri, 22 Nov 1996 12:23:39 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Justin Ashworth <ashworth@cs.montana.edu>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Booting
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.961122122306.1054D-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19961121004335.0072c310@cs.montana.edu>

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On Wed, 20 Nov 1996, Justin Ashworth wrote:

>   OK, here's my situation: I've installed FreeBSD numerous times before, but
> never on a dedicated drive. I had been using a partition of my IDE drive
> before. I just recently bought a SCSI drive that I'd like to put FreeBSD on.
> I can get through the install fine and everything, but when I try to boot
> with booteasy it just keeps giving me the boot options and never boots into
> BSD. However, I can still boot into Win 95. I tried using the OS boot select
> program from the /pub/FreeBSD/tools directory, but that only gives me an
> error message saying that there is no OS on my SCSI disk. I can boot into
> Win 95 with that boot loader as well. Any ideas? My IDE drive (Win 95) is my
> primary and my SCSI drive (FreeBSD) is recognized at boot time as DOS drive
> D: (or so my Adaptec would like to think).

Can you boot it from the install floppy and typing

sd(0,a)/kernel

at the Boot: prompt?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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