Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 12:16:55 -0800 From: Scott Johnson <srj@NSD.3Com.COM> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: HELP with booting FreeBSD and BootEasy Message-ID: <199603142016.AA17510@orodruin.NSD.3Com.COM>
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Hi, I'm having two problems that may or may not be related. 1) I can't get BootEasy (the Boot Manager that FreeBSD offers to install) to work. I've tried making the FreeBSD partition, the DOS partition (from both FreeBSD and DOS FDISK) and *both* partitions "bootable", and I get the same response: Hitting F1 to F5 changes the prompt from Fn (where n is the "bootable" partition) to F?, and the prompt scrolls. Nothing boots, no other keys have any effect. 2) When I boot from the boot floppy, and attempt to boot from sd0s2 by typing "hd(1,a)/kernel" at the boot floppy prompt, I get into a loop where I get the output "error: C:0 H:0 S:0" I've installed a 200M DOS partition on sd0s1, and have the rest of the disk partitioned for FreeBSD. When I run the install program on the boot floppy, I can re-mount the disks via the disklabel menu (the fsck seems to be happy with the data on the HD) but I can't get into the HD filesystem, because I can't boot the kernel. System particulars: Compaq Deskpro 386/25 1.08G Fujitsu 2694SQA connected via Adaptec 1522A controller partitioned 200M DOS on sd0s1, 809M FreeBSD on sd0s2 100Mb Conner IDE disk connected to Compaq Multifunction IDE controller partitioned 100% FreeBSD (used entire disk) (I've tried this with the IDE disk controller enabled, disabled, and physically removed from the system) Trident TVGA 1Mb Video Card, Sony CPD1302 Monitor What am I doing wrong here? Haylp! --srj How does the guy who drives the snowplow get to work? o_O --unknown =( ) = ----------------------------------------------------------- U Ack! Scott Johnson 3Com Corporation srj@3com.com 408-764-6248
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