From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 13 10:16:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from neale.econ.vt.edu (neale.econ.vt.edu [128.173.173.159]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B63E214EDC for ; Sat, 13 Mar 1999 10:16:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rdmurphy@neale.econ.vt.edu) Received: (from rdmurphy@localhost) by neale.econ.vt.edu (8.9.2/8.9.2) id NAA65015; Sat, 13 Mar 1999 13:18:55 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from rdmurphy) From: "Russell D. Murphy" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 13:18:55 -0500 (EST) To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: boot manager X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14058.43427.931954.89764@neale.econ.vt.edu> Reply-To: rdmurphy@vt.edu Cc: rdmurphy@vt.edu Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG After a hard disk replacement, I'm trying to install 3.1R from CD-ROM on a Gateway 5100 laptop. It previously ran 2.2.8-Stable and W95. I'm doing something completely backwards because I cannot get the boot manager installed properly. I want a small (roughly 500MB) partition for W95 and the rest (roughly 3500MB) of the drive for FreeBSD. After partitioning the drive into 450MB - DOS 58MB - FreeBSD (rest) - FreeBSD (although I'm pretty sure I used to have 1GB for W95 and 3GB for FreeBSD, but trying the above to stay within the 1024 cylinder limit for the root partition) and installing / on the 1st FreeBSD partition, I invariably get the following prompt upon rebooting after the installation: F1 - DOS F2 - FreeBSD F3 - FreeBSD F5 - Disk0 None of these will boot. Choosing F5 will bring up a shorter list of choices, but I can't get past the boot manager menu. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance. Russ Murphy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message