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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!netnews.upenn.edu!dsinc!newsfeed.pitt.edu!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!uunet!infoseek.com!not-for-mail From: leif@infoseek.com (Leif Hedstrom) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Help: Problems booting FreeBSD2 Date: 2 Mar 1995 15:58:55 -0800 Organization: InfoSeek Corporation, Santa Clara, CA Lines: 30 Message-ID: <3j5m3v$o9p@corp.infoseek.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: corp.infoseek.com X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #4 (NOV) Hi, I'm trying to install FreeBSD2 on my PC, but I'm having big problems... Let me first describe my hardware: - P5, PCI bus, 16MB mem. - 730 MB IDE disk, with one DOS partition, and one for BSD. - 540 MB IDE disk (second "port"), entirely for BSD. I've made sure the BIOS and FreeBSD has the same idea of the disks cylinders, sectors etc. I tried the first 2.0 release, but it doesn't boot at all from HD. It boots and installs from floppy, and asks me to reboot the machine. I'm not sure how it should work, but it never asks for the "cpio" disk. When booting from HD, nothing... Actually, the bootmanager won't boot anything, i.e. not even DOS!!! So, I fetched the latest "snapshot", from Feb 10th. This version of the boot manager lets me boot DOS ok, but I can't install BSD properly (it wont boot from HD). It boots fine from floppy, installs it stuff (including the "cpio" disk, but "hangs" when it's trying to umount `/mnt/usr'. When I try to boot from HD, nothing... Anyone has any ideas? If I can't get this to work, I'll have to try Linux... :-( Thanks! -- Leif