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From: dwormdahl@aol.com (DWormdahl)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Bootcode Problem
Date: 13 Jan 1995 03:44:43 -0500
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Reply-To: dwormdahl@aol.com (DWormdahl)
I am able to run the boot floppy and configure the HD partitions but when
it prompts you to re-boot and the boot manager comes up f2 (FreeBSD) does
nothing but f1 (dos) works fine. Because of this I have not been able to
use the cpio.flp during installation. I have used a small configuration
as this is a school project. Here is some info from the installation:
**********************************************
Fdisk: 1 boot=yes type=primary 'big' dos (>32 mb)
phys=(c0/h1/s1..c793/h15/s63) sector=(63..800351)
size=391mb , 793 cyl + 15 tracks
2 boot=no type-FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD
phys-(c794/h0/s1..c1023/h15/s63) sector=(800352..1056383)
size=125mb , 254 cyl
Disk Geometry: sect=63 heads=16 cyl=1048
Disklabel:
part start end blocks mb type action
mount point
a 833120 874079 40960 20 4.2BSD mount /
b 800352 833119 32768 16 swap swap swap
c 800352 1056383 256032 125 unused <FreeBSD
slice>
d 0 1057279 1057280 516 unused
<entire disk>
e 63 800351 800289 391 msdos mount /dos
f 874080 1056351 182272 89 4.2BSD mount /usr
g 0 0 0 0 unused
h 0 0 0 0 unused
My machine is a Dell Dimension XPS 90 pentium, PCI bus,WD 540mb HD, #9GXE
video
I don't know if any of this information will help or whether I am just
doing something stupid (or both!). I would really appreciate any
suggestions or comments on how to fix this boot problem.
thanks for your time and info,
Derek
P.S. I also set the freebsd partition in the fdisk to boot=yes and that
didn't work either.