Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 12:11:56 -0400 (EDT) From: "Christopher W. Aiken" <chris.aiken@ansys.com> To: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Boot from a CD Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10009061202310.31941-100000@linux32.ansys.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.21.0009060931430.993-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>
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On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Zhihui Zhang wrote: -| -|On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: -| -|> Again I ask... I installed FBSD 4.1 only to find out -|> that the boot loader needs a patch to boot correctly. -|> At least that is what I learned from the FBSD errata -|> sheet out on the 'net. -|> -|> Is it possible to boot my newly installed FBSD 4.1 system -|> from my "official" CD's that I purchased from Walnut Creek? -|> If so how. -|> -|> Yes I have a bootable CD drive. When I boot from my CD's -|> FBSD wants to "install". What I need to know is how to -|> skip the install and boot up the FBSD system that I already -|> have installed. -| -|I am using FreeBSD 4.1-Release on several machines. Once you install -|FreeBSD on your hard disk, you should be able to boot from it, no floppy -|or CD-ROM is needed. Maybe you should check the BIOS setup to tell it to -|boot from your hard disk. If you still fail, try to be specific when -|describing your problem and hopefully someone will try to help your out. -| -|-Zhihui -| You missed the point. I too have done various installs w/o any problems. With this install I chose to use the "FreeBSD Boot Manager". This displays the F1/F2/F3... O/S selection at boot time. At 4.1 there is an error in this "boot manager" that prevents the system from booting at all. We are left with nothing but a blank screen and no keys, not even Ctrl-Alt-Del work. The FBSD site has this problem listed on the errata sheet. What I want to be able to do is boot my "installed" system up from the CD's bypassing the FBSD Boot manager. If I could do this, then I could apply the boot0 patch from the FBSD site. W/O this patch I'm dead in the water with no way to boot up my "installed" system, since the Boot Manager over wrote my MBR. --- Christopher W. Aiken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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