Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 10:07:41 BST From: Michael Ryan <mike@NetworX.ie> To: tcg@ime.net Cc: FreeBSD Support <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: MBR not working Message-ID: <ECS9608151041B@NetworX.ie>
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On Thu, 15 Aug 1996 00:33:58 -0400 Gary Chrysler wrote: > > Now, when I reset the machine and get the two choices > > F1 DOS > > F2 BSD > > hitting F2 doesn't work. I just get the prompt again. > > If I select F1, it works fine. > > Does anybody know how to get FreeBSD booting off the hard disk > > via a boot manager? > IDE drive and the root slice (partition) is above cylinder 1024?? Good thinking Gary but, no, the DOS partition is only 130MB and FreeBSD's / is entirely below 1024 cyls. Any other ideas? By the way, when configuring osbs135, it does recognise the FreeBSD partition (it says partition 0 = DOS, partition 1 = 386BSD). Mike <mike@NetworX.ie> ---
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