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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!news.stealth.net!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!howland.erols.net!surfnet.nl!halley.pi.net!news From: isa@pi.net Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Installation Problem Date: 7 Aug 1996 16:09:34 GMT Organization: Planet Internet Lines: 53 Message-ID: <4uaf3u$dk3@halley.pi.net> References: <31E021B4.49ED@triode.apana.org.au> <4sukav$mlf@kaiwan.kaiwan.com> <31F64E43.7ACA@www.play-hookey.com> Reply-To: isa@pi.net NNTP-Posting-Host: 145.220.212.38 X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2 In <31F64E43.7ACA@www.play-hookey.com>, Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> writes: >lscolby@lscolby.com@lscolby@lscolby.com wrote: >> >> 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. >> > >You need to go through the -c | visual option and disable all devices you >don't actually have, as well as make sure port and IRQ numbers are right. >Even if you did this from the boot floppy, the numbers don't get >transferred to the installed system. They will be remembered when you put >them in as you boot from HD. >-- > >Ken > Hi, I'm new to FreeBSD (altough I've used SCO for some time), and having the same problems as mentioned above. I did boot with -c and removed everyting with confilcts (25!) from within visual. But when I saved&exit, the system doesn't seem to remember the things I changed. It keeps exiting with panic on device sd2a wich is one bridge to far! Greetings, Guus Teley //-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- // Some people have it all, a beautiful wife, a beautiful house, and even OS/2! //--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------