Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 11:45:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: GeneTRex@aol.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980625114422.1471k-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <b5a5070b.3591e20b@aol.com>
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On Thu, 25 Jun 1998 GeneTRex@aol.com wrote: > I must be over looking something. I left an earlier message about trying to > find install.bat but it turn's out it's not really needed or it's just > included within the novice installation from the boot disk. After playing with > the partition size I got enough room to do the install. I have 1 hard drive > with a small 50 meg dos partition including the downloaded distribution files. > I created the boot floppy went through novice install, all installed, I > rebooted the bootmanager came up with dos and FREEBSD boot choices, Dos boots > OK but..... > > FREEBSD reports that it can't find the boot config or boot help. This is usually indicitive of a failed install, but what happens if you hit <ENTER> and the Boot: prompt? boot.config and boot.help are two files in the root directory that provide a default boot: command and the usage message printed before displaying the boot: prompt. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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