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Subject: Re: Boot manager problems
To: tyork@vt.edu (Thayer York)
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 08:16:10 +0200 (MET DST)
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In-Reply-To: <199509171900.MAA22923@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Thayer York" at Sep 17, 95 02:59:51 pm
From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
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> 
> Well, it's actually one problem, and pretty straightforward at that.  I'm
> installing FreeBSD from a DOS medium.  I go through all the steps in the
> installation (along the way selecting that the boot manager be installed).
> The installation finishes, saying it was successful.  I do some post-install
> configuration and then reboot.  The boot manager menu comes up with only one
> choice - DOS.  I thought at this point I was supposed to be able to choose
> FreeBSD as well as DOS.  Any thoughts?
> 
> BTW - my configuration is as follows:
> Gateway 2000 486-33V (VLB)
> 16 MB memory
> EIDE compatible BIOS
> 3-1/2" floppy
> 1 GB WD IDE hard drive (none of which is being used for FBSD)
  ^^^^
  It sounds like you didn't specify a DOS/BIOS conformant disk
geometry. Divide the number of sectors reported from the autoprobe
during boot through 2048. This gives you the number of cylinders
you should use. Then specify 64 heads, 32 sectors.

> 340 MB WD IDE hard drive (60 MB partioned to FBSD and mounted as "/")
> 210 MB WD IDE hard drive (16 MB for FBSD swap partition, rest as a FBSD
> partition and
>                           mounted as "/usr")

The swap is a little bit tough, though. Make your / partition 40MB
and give a little bit more to swap (36MB).


> Rest of 340 MB drive and Primary DOS partition of 1 GB drive mounted as
> "/dosd" and
>      "/dosc", respectively
> IDE CD-ROM drive
> ATI Graphics Ultra Pro VLB w/1MB VRAM
> Gravis Ultrasound
> Digicom Systems Connection Series modem on COM3, IRQ5
> 
>  -> Thayer York
>     tyork@vt.edu
> 
> 

--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de