From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 1 19:52:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA14581 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 1 Jul 1996 19:52:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts7-line4.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.51]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA14513 for ; Mon, 1 Jul 1996 19:52:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id TAA00258; Mon, 1 Jul 1996 19:52:20 -0700 Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 19:52:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Sridhar Krishnan cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot Manager/ BSD on second disk (fwd) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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