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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!worldnet.att.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!mr.net!winternet.com!not-for-mail From: ttv@winternet.com (Thomas Veldhouse) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: BOOT PROBLEM Date: Tue, 04 Feb 1997 05:26:01 GMT Organization: StarNet Communications, Inc Lines: 25 Message-ID: <32f6c715.842721@news.winternet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp-67-57.dialup.winternet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99g/32.339 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35035 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