Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 19:52:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Sridhar Krishnan <skrishna@cisco.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot Manager/ BSD on second disk (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960701195020.228E-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPP.3.91.960625102840.2620D-100000@lint.cisco.com>
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On Tue, 25 Jun 1996, Sridhar Krishnan wrote: > This is in response to my earlier posting re: booting FreeBSD off the > second hard disk. > > I have not recvd. much any solutions thus far. When I re-installed the > whole thing again, I got a message "root system is read-only" in a > dialog-box. Does anybody know what this means ? You forgot to blow off the FreeBSD partition before reinstalling. Delete the FreeBSD partition using fdisk and try again, or don't newfs the partitions in the disklabel editor. > - If I install the BootEasy (during the sysinstall), the MBR is put on the > boot area of the second disk (because FreeBSD is on second disk ?). I > changed BIOS to look at second disk first for booting purposes, and I got > the F1- dos, F2- BSD prompt. F2 would boot fine from the hard disk but > would error with a [truncated] Reinstall booteasy from the CDROM or ftp site onto your first disk. Should be in /tools or /tools/dist. It's a known bug in the install routines. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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