Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 16:40:28 -0400 From: Vladislav <reason@shadow.net> To: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Subject: [Q]boot manager, cannot install Message-ID: <01080716472106.00729@ararat>
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Hi, I was suggested to repost my question here, my comuter is a 486, 20M of RAM, has 2 ide disks, first 1 is 500MB has linux installed second is 202MB has FreeBSD 3.3 installed. I cannot figure how to get FreeBSD bootmanager installed on the disk1. When using /stand/sysinstall I select custom and then go to the Partioning screen. There I select disk1 and see that blocks 0-63 are free (then I ext2fs and then linux swap) I select the unused partion, hit 'C' create, it asks me whether want the whole 64 sectors allocated for FreeBSD (file system type 165) I say yes, but then when I see the list of partions there, it still says 0-63 unused! I tried to boot from the floppy, still the same problem. May be there is a problem with my BIOS reporting disk geometry? Thanks in advance for any help, Vladislav >The problem I am having right now is that the system does not seem >to read those files. I think this is because I do not have boot loader >installed, I boot from a floppy disk (I tried to install FreeBSD's boot manager >but I have a old MB that can only boot from drive 1, and my freeBSD is >on drive 2 (all IDE), and even though drive 1 has free space from block 0 to >block 63, FreeBSD cannot create a partion there, so overall I cannot >install the boot manager onto the boot sectors of drive 1 and therfore cannot >boot from the hardisk, and therefore cannot use /boot/kernel.conf files to >manage the boot process.) >But anyways, thanks for the help, I guess, I have no other way but to change >the address of my network card (but then I have the sound card that is on x280, >so I have change that as well). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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