From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 19 23:59:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA19412 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 23:59:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hera.cwi.nl (hera.cwi.nl [192.16.191.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA19407 for ; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 23:59:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zeus.cwi.nl by hera.cwi.nl with SMTP id ; Sat, 20 Jul 1996 08:58:57 +0200 Received: by zeus-184.cwi.nl id ; Sat, 20 Jul 1996 08:59:08 +0200 Date: Sat, 20 Jul 1996 08:59:08 +0200 From: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl Message-Id: <9607200659.AA11018=aeb@zeus-184.cwi.nl> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Subject: Re: installation fails Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > One very funny point was that at the point where I had to give my > local time the digit 7 did not work (but 6 and 8 did) - very strange. Don't believe the timezone selector. Believe date(1). I am saying that the keyboard did not echo the keystroke 7 but it did echo 6 and 8. Strange indeed. Some bug in a keymap? ... You can put it back on yourself. Grab "bootinst.exe" and 'boot.bin' from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/tools/. Did you read my question? FreeBSD has been installed on a partition on my fifth disk. Now how do I boot it? I boot Linux from partitions on my third, fourth, fifth and sixth disks by putting the appropriate kernels on the second disk and giving a root=/dev/xxx option. My question is: does FreeBSD have a comparable feature? And if so, how do I get at a kernel, given the fact that I need a FreeBSD system to read ufs file systems. The OS/2 boot manager should pick it up no problem as long as you've told it about it in OS/2 FDISK. I use it here and it works stupendously. It is impossible to tell OS/2 Warp 3.0 fdisk. It is possible to tell OS/2 Warp 2.99 beta II fdisk, but it doesnt work because BM cannot boot from the fifth disk. Andries