Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 19:15:18 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Edward Roper <eroper@wanfear.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BootStrap not found. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980303191456.21429D-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <19980302220652.02228@ns1.wanfear.com>
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On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Edward Roper wrote: > Recently installed 2.2.5 from CD. Everything installed great, except that > it didn't bootstrap the drive, and now I can't figure out how to. > > Booting from a floppy and giving the "sd(0,a)kernel" option at the boot > prompt works like a charm, but I would love to get that floppy out of > the drive. 1. Use FDISK to verify that the active partition bit is set on the FreeBSD slice. 2. Try installing BootEasy on the ID 0 disk. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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