From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 3 19:15:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA04897 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 19:15:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA04831 for ; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 19:15:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA21454; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 19:15:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 19:15:18 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Edward Roper cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BootStrap not found. In-Reply-To: <19980302220652.02228@ns1.wanfear.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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