Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 18:22:38 -0500 From: Laurence Berland <stuyman@confusion.net> To: Eric Hodel <hodeleri@seattleu.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Uh oh Message-ID: <36ACFCBE.195B5759@confusion.net> References: <36ACC4EA.A4E7D078@confusion.net> <36ACF8B0.A341635B@seattleu.edu>
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I'm not sure what you mean. I only have one drive. The problem is I cant boot into the second partition on the first (and only) drive. That's where FBSD is, or at least should be. Eric Hodel wrote: > Laurence Berland wrote: > > > > I installed FBSD, sort of. I posted this before, now I'm getting > > desperate for help. If anyone knows what to do please help!!!! > > > > we've installed freebsd. We rebooted the system and the boot manager > > appeared, prompting us to > > F1 for ??? (which turned out is what it meant as win98) > > F2 for FreeBSD > > > > We hit f2, and the manager just repeats its window. It does this > > always, and as of yet we've not been able to get to a BSD prompt at all, > > or to get it to even begin booting fbsd. We've tried using the > > installation software to rewrite the boot manager, but it doesn't change > > anything. I'm completely stumped. Do we need to reinstall FreeBSD? > > Could it be that the error was because we made a second dos partition > > with the boot manager also? We deleted the second dos partition to try > > and fix the problem, but nothing changes. What do I do now? > > I've had this problem a few times, and it is a bit tricky to > circumvent with the default boot manager. The easiest way to fix it > is to install os-bs beta (beta supports multi-disk booting) and set up > the mbr that way. > > Using the default boot manager you need to be absolutely cetain that > you've set both drives bootable and installed the boot manager on both > (what you described seems to show that the 2nd drive doesn't have it.) > > -- > Eric Hodel > hodeleri@seattleu.edu -- Laurence Berland, Stuyvesant HS Debate <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> I wish I knew, I wish I knew what makes me, me, and what makes you, you. It's just another point of view, ooo. A state of mind I'm going through, yes. So what I see is never true, ahhh. -"I wish" Cat Stevens (Yusef Islam) http://stuy.debate.net http://evilfred.home.ml.org yes they're different icq #7434346 aol imer E1101 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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