From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 31 12:13:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from posgate.acis.com.au (posgate.acis.com.au [203.14.230.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4409D15CC6 for ; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 12:13:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au) Received: from bullseye.apana.org.au (uucp@localhost) by posgate.acis.com.au (8.9.2/8.9.2/Debian/GNU) with UUCP id GAA05065; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 06:07:41 +1000 (EST) Received: from bullseye.apana.org.au (central.apana.org.au [203.9.107.245]) by bullseye.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA12285; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 19:53:05 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au) Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 19:49:45 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew MacIntyre To: "Bart (The Good Guy) Trzynadlowski" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD installation problem, step-by-step walkthrough of problem included! In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990329221704.00852db0@powernet.net> Message-ID: X-X-Sender: andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au 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, 29 Mar 1999, Bart (The Good Guy) Trzynadlowski wrote: > - Window pops up saying: "Install boot manager for drive wd2?" > - I choose "None" because wd2 isn't my booting drive > - Screen pops up asking what disk I should make this operation on. I choose > WD2. It told me earlier that when I get to FDISK again I should just hit Q > - In FDISK I hit Q > - A window pops up saying: "Install boot manager for drive wd2?" again > - I say "None" again > - I choose WD0 to perform the operation and WD2 is already checked > - In FDISK I choose "Q" > - Now a window says: Install boot manager for drive wd0?" > - This is my booting drive so I choose (*) BootMgr > - Asks me to select the drive to perform the operation on, I choose WD0 > - Does NOT take me to FDISK but instead takes me to the FreeBSD Disk Label > Editor... under WD0!!! > - I quit the installation and restart Try installing the boot manager on the second drive (which _is_ your FreeBSD boot drive). -- Andrew I MacIntyre "These thoughts are mine alone..." E-mail: andrew.macintyre@aba.gov.au (work) | Snail: PO Box 370 andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au (play) | Belconnen ACT 2616 Fido: Andrew MacIntyre, 3:620/243.18 | Australia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message