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From: lscolby@lscolby.com@lscolby@lscolby.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Installation Problem
Date: 22 Jul 1996 01:08:47 GMT
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Hello:

I just installed Free BSD 2.1R on a system with OS2 and Windows NT. 
I use the OS2 boot manager to boot up. OS2 and Windows NT are on an 
eide drive; Free BSD is on a scsi drive. During installation configuration
I choose "none" as the Free BSD boot manager option. During partitioning
I marked the Free BSD partition bootable. 

Installation was uneventful. The reboot was unsuccessful as the OS2 boot
manager partition was no longer marked active. I rebooted using a dos
floppy and made the OS2 boot manager active. 

Rebooting was successful to the boot manager and I picked Free BSD as the
OS to boot. The Free BSD boot prompt appeared and after a few seconds it
started probing devices. It seemed to complete this phase, detected the scsi
device and began a secondary boot process when it panicked with a mount
to sda1.

Do I need to give a parameter to the Free BSD boot prompt? If so, where can
I find information about parameter values? If this is not the problem, any
advice would be appreciated.



Thanks,

Colby

lscolby@kaiwan.com