From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 15 13:36: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from deborah.paradise.net.nz (deborah.paradise.net.nz [203.96.152.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAEBF37B4EC for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 13:36:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from fenris.paradise.net.nz (203-79-95-27.apx0.paradise.net.nz [203.79.95.27]) by deborah.paradise.net.nz (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f1FLa0r17628 for ; Fri, 16 Feb 2001 10:36:00 +1300 (NZDT) Message-Id: <4.3.1.1.20010216100059.00a7c9a0@pop3.paradise.net.nz> X-Sender: greville@pop3.paradise.net.nz X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 10:35:08 +1300 To: From: Greville Whittle Subject: Problems installing FreeBSD 4.0 on second hard drive... Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I recently picked up a copy of freebsd 4.0 to try out. I went about trying to install it on my Pentium 166. I wanted to make the system a dual boot win95 and freebsd system, with windows on the first drive and freebsd on the second. The install seemed to go well, the program said that if I was running a dual boot system there would be an option to install a bootmanager later as part of the post install configuration. There was no option to do this and although the installation seemed to go well I cannot boot into freebsd. I looked on the install cd and it had a small program called 'bootinst.exe' that could fix this kind of problem. However when I ran it produced the following error 'unable to write boot.bin'. There was a second boot manager on the cd called 'osbs' but it could only see my windows disk.... Can somebody please help me with this problem.... Cheers Grev:) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message