From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 22 21:15:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.shadow.net (mail.shadow.net [204.177.71.231]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC8DD15075 for ; Fri, 22 Oct 1999 21:15:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from reason@shadow.net) Received: from ararat.mygus.com (mail@mch.shadow.net [207.17.59.250]) by mail.shadow.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA00053 for ; Sat, 23 Oct 1999 00:16:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=ararat ident=vladik) by ararat.mygus.com with smtp (Exim 3.03 #1 (Debian)) for FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG id 15UDl3-0002ZQ-00; Tue, 07 Aug 2001 16:47:21 -0400 From: Vladislav To: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Subject: [Q]boot manager, cannot install Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 16:40:28 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01080716472106.00729@ararat> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I was suggested to repost my question here, my comuter is a 486, 20M of RAM, has 2 ide disks, first 1 is 500MB has linux installed second is 202MB has FreeBSD 3.3 installed. I cannot figure how to get FreeBSD bootmanager installed on the disk1. When using /stand/sysinstall I select custom and then go to the Partioning screen. There I select disk1 and see that blocks 0-63 are free (then I ext2fs and then linux swap) I select the unused partion, hit 'C' create, it asks me whether want the whole 64 sectors allocated for FreeBSD (file system type 165) I say yes, but then when I see the list of partions there, it still says 0-63 unused! I tried to boot from the floppy, still the same problem. May be there is a problem with my BIOS reporting disk geometry? Thanks in advance for any help, Vladislav >The problem I am having right now is that the system does not seem >to read those files. I think this is because I do not have boot loader >installed, I boot from a floppy disk (I tried to install FreeBSD's boot manager >but I have a old MB that can only boot from drive 1, and my freeBSD is >on drive 2 (all IDE), and even though drive 1 has free space from block 0 to >block 63, FreeBSD cannot create a partion there, so overall I cannot >install the boot manager onto the boot sectors of drive 1 and therfore cannot >boot from the hardisk, and therefore cannot use /boot/kernel.conf files to >manage the boot process.) >But anyways, thanks for the help, I guess, I have no other way but to change >the address of my network card (but then I have the sound card that is on x280, >so I have change that as well). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message