Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 13:56:37 +0200 (CEST) From: Paul Herman <pherman@frenchfries.net> To: Mehran <mehran@gci.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: After installation freeBSD won't run Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009061351290.274-100000@bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de> In-Reply-To: <000a01c01799$b2531b80$f92aed18@anchorageak.net>
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Hi Mehran, [please wrap your lines to about 80 columns or so...] On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Mehran wrote: > I have installed freeBSD 4.0 from CD (BSD power pack) 8 or 9 > times so far. Each time the installation goes fine, but when the > system boots for the first time, it gives me an error message: > > " Preparing machine to load FreeBSD/386 > ..... > Read error" > > and thats all I get. I have dedicated whole hard drive to > freebsd. It seems its looking for something in drive "A". I am > using bootmagic, since I have Win 98 in another hard drive. If you want FreeBSD to work with other operating systems, you can't "dedicate the whole disk" to FreeBSD (there is a warning during installation about this.) The best thing for you to do is to partition the FreeBSD drive with 1 or 2 FreeBSD partitions (so that a valid partition table is written in the MBR). This way, bootmagic will know where to look on your hard drive for the FreeBSD partition. For more information see: http://www.FreeBSD.org/tutorials/multi-os/ -Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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