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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!newshost.marcam.com!news.mathworks.com!news.alpha.net!usenet From: wgkoch <wgkoch@glaci.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: FreeBSD 2.0 Boot Mgr.- How to get rid of it? Date: 27 Feb 1995 14:38:22 GMT Organization: Alpha.net -- Milwaukee, WI Lines: 28 Message-ID: <3iso4u$bi2@homer.alpha.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: dialup25.glaci.com I've been trying to run the INSTALL of FreeBSD (Walnut Creek 2.0 CD) on my HP Vectra P90 XU, 528Mb Fujitsu IDE, 16Mb RAM. The system also has a SCSI-2 disk that is on a PCI controller, that disk isn't being recognized by BSD...but that's a PCI issue, I think. I'm unsure what the INSTALL problem is...I checked all the troubleshooting notes and had some advice to check the disk geometry which didn't get me going. I did the (F)disk, the (L)abel and (P)roceed with install (after (W)riting everything including the (B)oot Mgr). BSD and the DOS Fdisk think the disk is 504 Mb, but if you do the math it comes up 528Mb. The cyl/hd/s info matches between the H-P config utilitity and (F)disk. DOS was originally booting fine from the disk when DOS owned the whole disk. I suspect the geometry advice was accurate, but I don't know how to fix it. INSTALL proceeds to the point where it wants to reboot from the hard disk (...never asked for the cpio floppy...I dunno if it should have). All that I can get is the F1...DOS, F2...BSD, F5...Disk1 and F1 & F2 just push back the prompt again. F5 will ultimately boot from floppy drive after the SECOND F5 hit...the first F5 pushes prompt again. Maybe I will send the CD back and kill the subscription, but how do I get back to the "normal" BOOT manager? If I leave my system this way, I'm stuck having to boot from floppy. Frustrated by the FreeBSD 2.0 INSTALL....