From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 30 12:55:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA28592 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 12:55:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA28576 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 12:54:45 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA01231; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 12:52:07 -0800 Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 12:52:07 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Dave Cash cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation Problem In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Mon, 29 Jan 1996, Dave Cash wrote: [skipped] > finally work. However, the boot manager does not seem to work. The only > noticeable change to the system after BSD has been installed is that the > C: partition on GRAMPS has been made inactive and my only choice is to > boot from flopopy and use fdisk to set that partition to be active, since > my computer will not boot from a fixed disk without an active partition. That's a common occurance, happened to me. You had the right fix. > And in my BIOS, my only boot options are "A:, C:" or "C:, A:". And when > I set the C: partition to be the active partition, my computer just boots > right into Windows 95 and doesn't seem to be aware that the might FreeBSD > is even in its midst... Did you install the Boot Manager? Windows 95 may be interfereing, a friend of mine yesterday reminded me that win95 has some anti-bootvirus protection, and installing a boot manager may not make it happy. > Any ideas? The only thing I have not tried is to repartition GRAMPS so > that C: becomes about 382 MB and I make a 100 MB partition for the core > stuff of FreeBSD (could I get away with a smaller space?) on GRAMPS so > that both are able to boot from GRAMPS. Then I could devote the large > partition on PEANUT to the rest of FreeBSD...so should I go to the > trouble to repartition GRAMPS or is this not the answer? Any help would > be appreciated. That would work, but win95 will still complain about a boot sector problem. (maybe, haven't tried it) You can boot freebsd from the floppy, ie typing at Boot: wd(1,a)/kernel A friend and I did that for a while. He's still doing it because of the possible win95 trouble, and I installed OS/2's Boot Manager and it works great. Hope this helps. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major