Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 12:38:34 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Ernie Becker <beckere@dallas.ds.adp.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot Manager Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980224123701.26338M-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <000d01bd40a9$029dd230$68507e8b@becker.dallas.ds.adp.com>
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Please wrap your lines at about 70 characters. Thanks. On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Ernie Becker wrote: > I loaded BSD on a 486. I Created a small 20 meg DOS partition. I > loaded CD drivers for a matshita CD-ROM and was able to run install > directly from the CD and install it in the remaining unused partition. okay. > I skipped over the Active drivers screen, despite 23 conflicts. okay, it speeds the load time if you remove the devices you don't have. > The load was flawless. Once completed I wasn't sure how to make a > smooth exit from the install program. It's as if my only option was to > Exit, and answer the question are you sure you want to exit? That would be the correct method. > Once I do, the system reboots, and prompts me to answer F1 for DOS or F2 > for BSD. It'll take DOS, but won't take F2 for BSD. It keeps prompting > me to set the default. Do you know what's up? Sounds like bad geometry, which shouldn't be. Try booting the boot floppy and at the Boot: prompt type `wd(0,a)/kernel'. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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