From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 12 08:14:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA23874 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 12 Aug 1996 08:14:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay4.smtp.psi.net (relay4.smtp.psi.net [38.9.52.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA23859 for ; Mon, 12 Aug 1996 08:14:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from uu10.psi.com by relay4.smtp.psi.net (8.7.5/SMI-5.4-PSI) id LAA23984; Mon, 12 Aug 1996 11:13:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ibi.com by uu10.psi.com (5.65b/4.0.061193-PSI/PSINet) via SMTP; id AA20306 for ; Mon, 12 Aug 96 10:42:21 -0400 Received: from ibivm by ibigate.ibi.COM id aa14072; 12 Aug 96 10:44 EDT Received: from IBIVM by IBIVM.IBI.COM (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 4544; Mon, 12 Aug 96 10:42:16 EDT Received: from tcpgate.ibi.com by IBIVM.IBI.COM (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with TCP; Mon, 12 Aug 96 10:42:14 EDT Received: from cc:Mail by tcpgate.ibi.com id AA839871623; Mon, 12 Aug 96 10:38:45 edt Date: Mon, 12 Aug 96 10:38:45 edt From: Bruce Perryman Message-Id: <9607128398.AA839871623@tcpgate.ibi.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Boot problems after installing FreeBSD Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello Walnut Creek, I am a new FreeBSD user and I am having trouble using it. I have 2 hard drives, a 252 MB as the master and a 2000 MB as the slave. Although my bios is dated February 1994, I had trouble seeing all of my 2000 MB drive. So I used IBM's Disk Manager software to create 2 1000 MB partitions. In doing so Disk Manager created a boot manager on my C drive which prompts me to press the spacebar if I want to boot from a floppy, otherwise it boots from my C drive. Then I attempted to install FreeBSD. I created an installation boot floppy from my FreeBSD v2.1 installation CD and proceeded to install a intermediate level XDevleloper version of FreeBSD. To create space I deleted the second partition created by Disk Manager and created a 950 MB partition for FreeBSD. I requested that the master boot record remain untouched, however after the installation was completed, and the system rebooted, I was prompted to insert a boot floppy in drive A. My PC won't boot now unless I have a boot floppy. This wouldn't be so bad if I could boot FreeBSD from a floppy, but I can't figure out how. I don't see anywhere in the menus how to create a boot floppy to run FreeBSD. I do see how to create one for installation. So FreeBSD is installed but I can't run it. The ideal situation would be to have FreeBSD's boot manager control whether I boot DOS or BSD and have BSD on my large drive (I would rather not boot from a floppy). However, I need Disk Manager's boot manager to see all of my large drive. The next desirable situation would be to boot FreeBSD from a floppy - but I need instructions on how to do so. If you can give me any other options for the solution of this problem, I would appreciate it. I hope that I was too descriptive of the problem, however if I wasn't please contact me so that I can further clarify. I am very eager to get started with FreeBSD. I look forward to your reply. Thank you, Bruce Perryman (212)736-4433 x4444 M-F 9-5