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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