From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 2 10:54:44 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id KAA21510 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 2 Jun 1995 10:54:44 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id KAA21501 for ; Fri, 2 Jun 1995 10:54:34 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA20291; Fri, 2 Jun 1995 19:52:09 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id TAA16612 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 2 Jun 1995 19:52:08 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id TAA15038 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 2 Jun 1995 19:21:23 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199506021721.TAA15038@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Cant boot a new 2.0.5A system To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Fri, 2 Jun 1995 19:21:22 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) In-Reply-To: <199506020016.RAA00968@ref.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Jun 1, 95 05:16:41 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 646 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > The surest and easiest way to get it 100% right (by definition) is: > boot dos > delete all freebsd slices > make (at least) one dos slice > boot boot.flp > (delete dos slice if you don't want it) > create freebsd slice(s) Why do i have to boot DOS? (Where should i get one? :) The previous versions (after 2.0) have been able to locate the BSD partition immediately at the beginning of the drive if i told ``Use whole disk'', so why has this been changed now? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)