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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!udel!darwin.sura.net!gwu.edu!seas.gwu.edu!dobrien From: dobrien@seas.gwu.edu (David O'Brien) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 2.0.5R installation OK; how to boot? Date: 3 Aug 1995 01:26:36 GMT Organization: George Washington University Lines: 29 Message-ID: <3vp8kc$7fm@cronkite.seas.gwu.edu> References: <3vch0k$f0e@Mars.mcs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.164.9.3 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Font (font@MCS.COM) wrote: : I am a complete newbie to FreeBSD or other free UNIX-type systems. I : decided to try an installation on the following machine: : 486DX2/80 16MB RAM : two IDE drives used for DOS/Win : one 2 gig SCSI drive to be used for FreeBSD only on AHA 1540CF : Partitioned SCSI drive into four partitions, /, /usr, /u and swap, : each around 500 MMB. Fine. Installer found my IDE DOS directories : for minimal installation. Fine. Install finishes. Fine. : Now what? How do I boot FreeBSD? I asked for a boot manager. This : probably got put on the SCSI disk so it doesn't do me any good. I : tried typing "hd(1,a)/kernel" when booting from the install floppy. : No go, it says "bad disklabelCan't find hd(1,a)/kernel" (exactly like Since like what I experienced when my *entire* root partition wasn't below the 1024 cyc mark on an IDE drive. Maybe the same limitations on the root partition apply to SCSI drives??? You could also try ``sd(0,a)/kernel'' maybe that would boot for you. I also had trouble getting the Booteasy installed by sysinstall to work. I manually installed Booteasy (from MS-DOS) after I installed FreeBSD. Worked just fine (I answered "yes" for every drive when it asked). -- David (dobrien@seas.gwu.edu -or- obrien@sea.legent.com)