Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 22:54:38 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: "Tim M. Kelley" <tkelley@cy.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Another Failed to boot problem Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960115225258.571A-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199601152338.SAA02637@cy.com>
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On Mon, 15 Jan 1996, Tim M. Kelley wrote: > I've managed to install FreeBSD 2.1R from my ATAPI CDROM drive onto my > second hard drive solely dedicated to FreeBSD. My primary drive is a DOS > drive. During the (novice) install, I specified that the FreeBSD boot > manager is to be installed. Wow! ATAPI that worked? :-) > However, when I reboot my PC, I get the prompt from the boot manager to > press F1 for DOS, or F5 for Disk 2. F1 boots DOS with no problems. However, > F5 just causes the boot manager prompt to be redisplayed. In other words, I > can't boot the installed FreeBSD. AFAIK, the boot manager seems to balk at starting freebsd from a second disk. It never worked for me. When I installed OS/2 I install it's Boot Manager and that works quite nicely. > Here are my questions: > 1) Is it possible to boot FreeBSD from a floppy and have the boot process > automatically (or manually, even) recognize my FreeBSD installation? Manually: yes. Auto: you have to rebuild the floppy. Don't ask me how :) > 2) How do I remove the boot manager from my DOS disk? from dos: FDISK /MBR > 3) Alternatively, how do I make the FreeBSD boot manager work? Someone else please tell me! :-) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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