From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 4 09:30:01 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA14923 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 4 May 1995 09:30:01 -0700 Received: from devnull.mpd.tandem.com (devnull.mpd.tandem.com [131.124.4.29]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA14911 for ; Thu, 4 May 1995 09:29:59 -0700 Received: from rolex.mpd.tandem.com by devnull.mpd.tandem.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id LAA01733; Thu, 4 May 1995 11:29:46 -0500 Received: from hottub (hottub.mpd.tandem.com) by rolex.mpd.tandem.com (4.1/TSS2.1) id AA19039; Thu, 4 May 95 11:29:56 CDT Received: by hottub (931110.SGI/930416.SGI) for @rolex.mpd.tandem.com:questions@FreeBSD.ORG id AA02114; Thu, 4 May 95 11:29:54 -0500 From: "Kendall Schmidt" Message-Id: <9505041129.ZM2112@hottub> Date: Thu, 4 May 1995 11:29:54 -0500 Company: Tandem Computers, Integrity Systems Division Reply-To: kschmidt@devnull.mpd.tandem.com X-Mailer: Z-Mail (3.1.0 22feb94 MediaMail) To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: SNAP-950412 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I am trying to get SNAP-950412 up on a Gateway 4DX2V66 system. System configurations is: 12MB RAM 340MB Western Digital Caviar HD (disk 1) 730MB Western Digital Caviar HD (disk 2) DOS 6.22 WFW 3.11 I have the following DOS partitions (slices) defined: C: 340MB (entire disk1) D: 348MB (half of disk 2) I have partitioned the remaining half of disk 2 for FreeBSD as follows: a 20MB 4.2BSD / b 28MB swap c 348MB unused d 695MB unused e 200MB 4.2BSD /usr f 100MB 4.2BSD /usr2 g unused h 340MB MSDOS /dos I have written the (B)oot Manager to disk 1 (as described on the TROUBLE SHOOTING doc) so I can boot from disk2 (using wd(1,a)/kernel command). PROBLEM: When I boot the system, I get the following prompt: F1 - dos F5 - disk 2 If I press "F5", then get the following prompt: F1 - dos F2 - BSD F5 - disk 1 If I press "F2", the system hits on one of the disks (which one I don't know) then displays the first prompt again: F1 - dos F5 - disk 2 I am stuck between these 2 prompt until I finally press F1 and go to DOS. QUESTION(s): 1) What can I do to get BSD to boot at this point? 2) How can the Boot Manager be removed non-destructively from disk 1 (my C: drive allocated to DOS only)? If so, how? 3) Does a "MSDOS" type partition have to be defined as the last ("h") partition? By default it came up as the "e" partition when I first installed FreeBSD. I subsequently (D)eleted, (I)mported as partition "h". 4) Are you aware that doing a (W)rite _after_ (A)ssigning partition types will lock-up the installation process? (Have to ctrl-c to break out) Possible install bug? Thanks in advance. ________________________________________________________________________ Kendall Schmidt kschmidt@isd.tandem.com Tandem Computers, Inc. 512.432.8524 Integrity Systems Division 512.432.8037 (FAX) 14231 Tandem Blvd., Austin, TX 78728-6699 ________________________________________________________________________