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From: shah@amiserv.xnet.com (Hemant Shah)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Booting FreeBSD from second drive?
Date: 28 Dec 1994 22:01:16 GMT
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Hi,
I successfully installed FreeBSD 2.0 (Walnut Creek CD ROM) on my PC.
I have 2 SCSI Drives, First one has one DOS partition (203 MD),
second drive had 2 DOS partitions (260 MB each). I installed FreeBSD on
the second partion on second drive, I also installed Boot Manager on the
first drive.
When I boot my system the boot manager asks me to press F1 to boot DOS
and F5 to boot Unix. When I press F5 I get error message
Operation System Missing
I can boot from the floppy and at boot prompt type:
sd(1,a)/kernel
and everything is fine.
How can I do one of the following:
1) Instruct Boot Manager to boot Unix from sd(1,a)
OR
2) Remove boot manager from the hard drive, I do not mind booting
from floppy for Unix.
Also, what is the meaning of the boot parameters:
-s -> boot boot in single user mode
-c -> config kernel?
-r -> ????
-b -> ????
-d -> ????
Thanx in advance :-)
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