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From: gegressy@uoguelph.ca (Gabor Egressy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: boot manager
Date: 21 Feb 1997 15:21:58 GMT
Organization: University of Guelph
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Hi
I was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction. Here
is my problem. I have two harddrives, both IDE. The first one is a
1.7G partitioned into four roughly equal size partitions and has win95
on it. The second one is a 500M and I installed FreeBSD on it. FreeBSD
occupise the entire disk. Unfortunately I cannot boot into it with the
boot floppy after installation. When installing it FreeBSD recognized
it as wd2(winchester disk 2). I tried to boot from the floppy when I
got the boot: prompt with boot : wd(2,a)/kernel. This did not work as I
got a scrolling error message. I was wondering how I could install a
boot manager or boot from the floppy. I found a directory on the Walnut
Creek CD-ROM /tools/srcs/bteasy and a program called "bootinst". I am
somewhat apprehensive about running it since I cannot possibly backup
all my files(over 1G in size). Will "bootinst" install the "booteasy"
boot manager? Is there a way I could boot from the floppy? What is the
magic incantation needed at the boot prompt?
Thanks for your help.
gabor.
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