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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!po!jminor From: jminor@po.Berkeley.EDU (Josh Minor) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0 Boot Mgr.- How to get rid of it? Date: 12 Mar 1995 20:45:41 GMT Organization: University of California, at Berkeley Lines: 27 Message-ID: <3jvmhl$3o0@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <3iso4u$bi2@homer.alpha.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: po.eecs.berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] wgkoch (wgkoch@glaci.com) wrote: : 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. I have the same problem, and I resorted to fdisk /mbr as well. : owned the whole disk. I suspect the geometry advice was accurate, : but I don't know how to fix it. The disk geometry in the BSD Fdisk utility must match the geometry specified by your BIOS. You need to get the right number of cylinders, heads and sectors. Plus there is a setting in your BIOS for drives larger than 1GB which, the FAQ says, should be turned off for BSD. If I turn it off then BSD works okay but my QuickIDE drivers in DOS crash the machine. Fixing these thing is supposed to make it work. However, I found that it does not help me. So please take this advice with caution, since I haven't made it work yet :( I still get the same problem with the multi-boot manager. Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong? Thanks, Josh