Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 00:52:33 -0800 (PST) From: balagee@india.com To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: i386/16801: BSD does'nt get booted when DOS partition exists Message-ID: <200002180852.AAA08380@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 16801
>Category: i386
>Synopsis: BSD does'nt get booted when DOS partition exists
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: high
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
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>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Fri Feb 18 01:00:01 PST 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Balaji
>Release: 2.2.5
>Organization:
Prosoft Information Systems
>Environment:
>Description:
I am facing problems in installing FreeBSD which came with a book which I purchased. The problems are,
1. I was not able to boot from the CD
2. I created floppy which contained the Boot image, the installation started of smoothly, but when the installation program tried to access the CD-ROM drive it said the version was incorrect - "Do you want to continue" I said OK continue. After that it stopped with an error saying that some files were not found and came out of the installation process.
3. I created a DOS partion of 2GB which had DOS 6.22 OS on that partition. From there by accessing the CD-ROM drive I tried to xcopy program and dump the contents of the CD on the DOS partition but the copy failed inbetween while it was trying to copy some files from the CD-ROM\AIX\ folder which had some characters like "++-" etc.., then I ran the SETUP program to copy the required files on to the DOS partition.
4. From the DOS partion I started the install.bat program, while partitioning I configured another 2GB for FreeBSD nad wile configuring filesystems I alloted 600MB for "/" , 600MB for "/usr", 600MB for "/var" and the rest for "swap"
5. The copying of files and all went on smoothly and after all the copying is over is came back to the same menu where I selected the type of installation i.e, Novice from where I selected to "Exit Install"
6. But after all this too when the machine rebooted it asked for the default boot "DOS or BSD" i.e, F1 or F2, I selected F2 to boot through BSD but it was not happening it was again and again asking me to press F1 or F2 when I press F1 machine boots through DOS.
Note:
1. I made the FreeBSD partition "Set Bootable" while creating partitions - Still the same problem.
2. I tried with "LBA" and "Normal" settings for the Harddisk in the CMOS setup - Still the same problem prevails.
Can you give me suggestions and ideas of how I could solve this problem.
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