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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!uwm.edu!fnnews.fnal.gov!cbgw1.lucent.com!cbgw2.lucent.com!news.bu.edu!engc!not-for-mail From: tom@bu.edu (Thomas P. Skinner) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: BOOT PROBLEM Date: 5 Feb 1997 13:42:48 GMT Organization: Boston University Lines: 37 Message-ID: <5da2oo$r0f@news.bu.edu> References: <32f6c715.842721@news.winternet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: engc.bu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35007 Take a look at my earlier post about the boot problem. All you have to do is create a fixit floppy. In DOS fire up the view program and with a little effort you will figure out how to write one. Be sure to boot off of this floppy, not the install floppy. Entering wd(1,a) after the boot prompt should do nicely. My system is configured this way and works well. Thomas P. Skinner Boston University Thomas Veldhouse (ttv@winternet.com) wrote: : Simple! I can't boot. : : Nowhere in the stupid installation of the system does it ever : ask you to make a boot disk. Even Linux does this. I do not want to : mess with my MBR on my primary drive under any circumstances. If this : is required to run this, then it isn't very versitile at all and 2.1.6 : is going back to Walnut Creek. However, here is the problem. : : I have two disks on my system and a CD-ROM. The install : finds all these things. My first disk is on IDE controller 0. My : CD-ROM is the master on IDE controller 1 and the second hard drive is : the slave. No big deal to Linux. LILO won't work, but I just boot : from a floppy, no problem. However, there is no floppy to boot from : using FreeBSD. Or if the Boot floppy works, there is absolutely no : documentation on this. I find this frustrating as hell and hope that : this lack of documentation isn't going to be ongoing. : : If anybody gets this far, could you please help me get my : system booted into FreeBSD. It is all installed, but I can't find a : way to boot into it. I did specify that the OS Loader (whatever they : called it, be loaded onto the root of my second hard drive. The : kernel should be in place). : : Tom Veldhouse : ttv@winternet.com