Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1996 11:07:06 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: david.mcardle@m130.aone.net.au (David McArdle) Cc: FREEBSD-INSTALL@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Press Any key to Reboot - HELP! Message-ID: <199603011807.LAA14506@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199603011101.WAA25599@mail.mel.aone.net.au> from "David McArdle" at Mar 1, 96 10:01:46 pm
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> Bloody Hell. > I have tried everything > I have a dx266 with 12 meg ram and 2 X 500meg harddrives > 1st hardrive is C:\----This is full of DOS > 2nd hardrive is D:\====This is empty for BSD > My CDROM is not compatible for some stupid reason although > I have played with the settings anyway. I then > install Freebsd user install etc and carry out the normal > install procedure from c:\freebsd onto D:\ > Everything works fine, it says "Congratulations" etc > but when I reboot it comes up "Press any key to reboot" > Lucky I have a boot disk. There is no boot manager for > my Windows 95, DOS, FREEBSD setup. > Please help me > I am desperate! Boot a DOS floppy and run DOS fdisk from the floppy. Look at the partition table on the first disk. 1) If it has one partition of an unknown type, it should be marked active. The partition table is contained in an OnTrack Disk Manager or similar EIDE LBA TSR. a) Exit fdisk and reboot the machine from the hard drive. b) If you get an OS-BS or boot manager prompt, then select the first item. If this fails to boot DOS (or Win95 or whatever), then: i) Insert the DOS floppy. This will boot DOS from the fopyy with the OnTrack from the hard drive installed. Run Fdisk and make sure the DOS partition is active. Go to step #1. ii) Otherwise, OS-BS has been written over top of the OnTrack (or similar) code, and you will need to reinstall OnTrack to make the disk usable. c) If it boots DOS without ging an OS-BS boot selector prompt: i) Download the DOS install version of the OS-BS boot selector from the FTP site, or pull it off the CDROM onto a DOS disk. ii) Boot the machine in DOS so that the OnTrack code is active. If you boot Win95 by default, choose "Restart the computer in MS-DOS mode" in the shutdown screen (Win95 has boot block "virus protection"). iii) From the DOS prompt, install the OS-BS using the DOS install. 2) Once you have the first disk booting again with OS-BS, you need to run fdisk on the second drive. a) Mark the BSD partition bootable; in the DOS fdisk probram, it will show up as a "non-DOS partition". b) Reboot the machine. From the OS-BS prompt, select the second disk. i) If it complains that it isn't bootable, then you make have OnTrack on the second disk as well. Some vendors ship it on their EIDE disks. You will probably need to boot from the DOS disk again and set the OnTrack "non-DOS partition" active as well. 3) You should be up and running. 4) At your earliest convenience, switch to SCSI. 8-). 5) There is no #5. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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