From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 20 00:50:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA24374 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 20 Jul 1996 00:50:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA24349; Sat, 20 Jul 1996 00:50:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA12495; Sat, 20 Jul 1996 09:50:40 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA25834; Sat, 20 Jul 1996 09:50:39 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id JAA03486; Sat, 20 Jul 1996 09:35:23 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199607200735.JAA03486@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: installation fails To: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl Date: Sat, 20 Jul 1996 09:35:23 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <9607200414.AA09748=aeb@zeus-184.cwi.nl> from "Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl" at "Jul 20, 96 06:14:16 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote: > I have a rather > delicate setup with 3 IDE and 3 SCSI disks, and as far as I can > see there is no information at all about the precise properties > or configuration of this boot manager, so I answered No. > So my present question is: is there a way to let the installation > procedure make a boot floppy that boots a given partition? Not automatically, but you can manually boot. Assuming your FreeBSD root file system is on the second SCSI disk (sd1), insert the installation floppy, then say at the Boot: prompt: 4:sd(1,a)/kernel (The `4' means `5th BIOS disk'.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)