Date: Sat, 3 Feb 1996 22:48:14 -0500 From: "Tim M. Kelley" <tkelley@cy.com> To: michelle@fishbone.com (Michelle Brownsworth), questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot problem with new FreeBSD install Message-ID: <199602040348.WAA06031@cy.com>
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At 12:56 AM 2/2/96 -0800, Michelle Brownsworth wrote: >In preparation for installing FreeBSD, I bought a new Western Digital >1.6 GB drive. It was to have one 528K DOS partition and the remaining >1+ GB was to be allocated to FreeBSD. Since I have an IDE CD drive that If you change your IDE configuration so that the CD is the slave device on the primary IDE controller or ribbon, FreeBSD may be able to install from the IDE CD. I did this and was able to install. Then you can customize the kernel (once you are actually able to boot FreeBSD) so that the IDE CD is recognized on boot up. Email me or ask freebsd-questions for more info on doing this. Actually, I submitted a FAQ to the documentation team about this, but it hasn't shown up on the web yet. >But when I rebooted and selected F2 from the BootEasy menu--uh oh--same >problem. I went back and doublechecked everything--and I do mean >everything--again, but no joy. > I'm unsure from your comments whether you have one or two hard drives. If you have two hard drives and you installed FreeBSD on the second, the booteasy boot manager won't boot FreeBSD. I don't know that this is generally true, but I've seen it mentioned a few times on the freebsd-questions list. Also, I had the same problem. You ought to be able to boot FreeBSD by placing the FreeBSD boot floppy into the floppy drive and when prompted for the boot drive, enter wd(2,a)/kernel if you installed the kernel on the second hard drive. You may need to try modify the above line based on how you partitioned your hard drive. You can get rid of the booteasy boot manager by running under DOS the command FDISK /MBR This replaces the original DOS master boot record. It is supposedly possible to make a custom boot floppy that will automatically go to the appropriate boot location for FreeBSD, but I haven't gotten around to trying this. If you are interested in the instructions that were passed on to me for this, just email me. >So, I'm stymied. What should be a fairly straight-forward install has >turned into quite a thrash... Anybody have any ideas? > I second the comment on what should be a straight-forward install. I had lots of trouble too. Tim Kelley
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