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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.bugs:1972 comp.os.386bsd.questions:7702 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!news.kei.com!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!caen!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs,comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: [FreeBSD-1.0R]: Missing operating system Date: 4 Jan 1994 23:04:07 GMT Organization: Montana State University - Bozeman MT Lines: 49 Message-ID: <2gcsl7$5vi@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <2gcfbg$mko@news.ysu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <2gcfbg$mko@news.ysu.edu>, Christopher L. Mikkelson <ae516@freenet.buffalo.edu> wrote: > > FreeBSD looks like a great operating system, and a friend and >I have tried to install it. The same thing happened on both of our >systems. > > System setups: 386/486 systems with Adaptec 1542 and SCSI disks > His: AMI BIOS / 386 > Mine: Phoenix BIOS / 486 > > Before: > His: DOS on 1st partition, Linux on 2nd w/LILO > 2nd partition was active, so he would > get LILO every boot. > Mine: DOS on 1st partition Linux on 2nd w/LILO > 1st partition had LILO on its bood sector, > and was active, so I got LILO every boot. > > We installed FreeBSD on 2nd partitions of both, deleting Linux > partitions. We used FreeBSD defaults after verifying that they > were true, or at least possible :-) No errors during kernel copy, > and we made sure we copied it to the right partition. Hmm, I suspect LILO left something around that FreeBSD doesn't like, since FreeBSD requires that everything is done by FreeBSD. When you boot DOS, do you still get the LILO menu? > Both of us: HELP! what do we do? If LILO is still around, what you can do is use a floppy and then when you get the menu type wd0:/386bsd and see if it boots onto your hard-drive. (Something like that, it's from memory) If that works, then you need to re-install the bootblocks. Send private email to me and I'll explain it. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | Freely available *nix clones benefit everyone, nate@cs.montana.edu | so let's not compete with each other, let's work #: (406) 994-4836 | compete with folks who try to tie us down to home #: (406) 586-0579 | proprietary O.S.'s (Microsloth) - Me