From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 20 9:17:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.snet.net (smtp.snet.net [204.60.6.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EA3615336 for ; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 09:17:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cwest03@snet.net) Received: from snet.net (ptnm-sh2-port208.snet.net [204.60.41.208]) by smtp.snet.net (8.9.3/8.9.3/SNET-bmx-1.3/D-1.7/O-1.6) with ESMTP id MAA18779 for ; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 12:15:51 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <37949FEB.D57D72F5@snet.net> Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 12:12:28 -0400 From: Colin West X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (OS/2; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Problem getting FreeBSD to boot Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Having installed FreeBSD I cannot get it to boot and have no doubt it's my ignorance that's causing the problem. I have two disk drives set up thus: Disk 1 -- Maxtor 1.2 gb drive C: Primary FAT Windows 95 Bootable D: Logical FAT (data only) E: unformatted F: unformatted Primary BootManager Startable (Note: E: & F: are only there because of the way I had originally installed OS/2. They take about 1 mb each and simply bump up the drive letters. It's a long story....) Disk 2 -- Maxtor 8.4 gb drive G: Logical HPFS OS/2 Bootable H: Logical HPFS (data) I: Logical HPFS (data) Freespace (lots of it!) Primary type A5 (FreeBSD) 2.5 gb @ the end of disk I noticed that I can only specify the first partition on Drive 2 as bootable. The OS/2 FDISK utility will not let me specify any other drive as bootable. I had hoped that, by installing Booteasy with FBSD, I would be able to get it up & running; alas, no. So, am I asking the impossible? I have the Maxtor Disk Overdrive (or whatever it's called) that allows the BIOS to address large disks but should FreeBSD be installed within a certain cylinder range? I am unclear on this even after re-reading Greg Lehey's excellent book. Also, after the install completed and the machine re-booted I could not get it to boot from the hard drive at all; The Disk Overdrive startup gives me the chance to press the space bar to boot from a floppy. It was as if I had done this and the machine would wait for me to insert a disk and press any key. By re-running the OS/2 install to a command prompt and using the FDISK I can fix it (mark bootmanager as startable). Then the Booteasy menu comes up, F1 - DOS (windows) F3 - ?? (Boot manager) F5 - Disk 1 So, what did I do wrong (or completely fail to read and comprehend)? TIA, Colin -- Colin West cwest03@snet.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message