Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 15:01:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Rick Hamell <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com> To: Kerry Davis <kedavis@uswest.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: puzzlement Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010091453290.10409-100000@heorot.1nova.com> In-Reply-To: <0a8a01c03307$969d6920$0200000a@system>
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> I started out by installing DOS in a small (200 meg) partition on the first > drive (IBM 2 gig SCSI, on a Qlogic 1080 card), along with IDE CD-ROM > drivers, which is how I read the readme.txt and install.txt files. For a first time install, I would recommend this... I personally don't do it anymore, but that's me... :) > Then I created the 2 boot/install floppies from makeflp.bat (which is an > issue to me right there: why can't there just be a DOS install program on > the CD? seems like that couldn't be any more difficult than putting > together the 2-floppy "bootstrap" thing), and booted from those Actually, the CDROM is bootable. No need for such a dos program on the CDROM. Though there probally is. > Everything seemed to go more or less okay, as it looked. But after the > installation is completed, my system won't reboot. Even if I change the > boot sequence to C: Only, it goes through the POST stuff, then goes to the > floppy drive and stays there. Um... if you've got floppies in the disk drive, and the CDROM in the CDROM drive, you should be booting off of A: or d: first.. not your c:\... Now, if you've formated and put a system on the c:\ then that should work. But you've created the floppies, so boot off of them. BTW.. 90% of the boot problems with floppies are bad disks. Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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