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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: Re: FreeBSD 2.0 Boot Mgr.- How to get rid of it? Date: 28 Feb 1995 17:02:40 GMT Organization: Alpha.net -- Milwaukee, WI Lines: 45 Message-ID: <3ivkvg$t4t@homer.alpha.net> References: <3iso4u$bi2@homer.alpha.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: dialup24.glaci.com Several provided the remedy to get the Walnut Creek FBSD 2.0 boot mgr killed... Boot from DOS floppy and Use DOS Fdisk /mbr to overwrite it Having done that, you can boot the ACTIVE partition and the INSTALL can proceed without a boot manager. thanks to... jkh@violet.berkeley.edu, evans@clunix.cl.msu.edu, katmandu@netcom.com ...and others wgk > 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.... > >