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Date:      Tue, 28 Apr 1998 13:44:14 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        George Grigorov <george-dearborn@worldnet.att.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FREEBSD INSTALLATION
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980428134317.11911D-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <353A11F8.3333@worldnet.att.net>

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On Sun, 19 Apr 1998, George Grigorov wrote:

> Please, help...
> I have a Packard-Bell 486DX2/50 with two hard drives. Trying to install
> FREEBSD on the second drive(1.2 GB). Installation as if completed
> successfully but when exiting the installation(EXIT INSTALL) and
> rebooting the EasyBoot manager prompts "F1 DOS; F5 Disk2".  Whatever
> option I choose ONLY DOS BOOTS???
> What is the solution to this problem?

Classic geometry problem, probably.  If you elected to keep the second
disk in compatible mode, try installing booteasy onto it.  Grab
bootinst.exe and boot.bin from the tools/ direcctory then run bootinst
under dos.

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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