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#! rnews 3253 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!hermes.oc.com!news.unt.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!blackbush.xlink.net!news.nordwest.de!lemur.nord.de!usenet From: Thomas Wintergerst <thomas@lemur.nord.de> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Boot and Mouse problems on new system Date: Sun, 04 Feb 1996 21:06:24 +0100 Organization: Lemuria Private Computing Lines: 59 Message-ID: <311511C0.41C67EA6@lemur.nord.de> References: <4eri6s$raj@alterdial.UU.NET> <4erveu$3ec@alterdial.UU.NET> NNTP-Posting-Host: dagobert.lemur.nord.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b5 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) Curt Welch wrote: > > I wrote: > >I've just started trying to install FreeBSD and have run into some > >problems I haven't yet been able to solve. > > >First, I've installed FreeBSD on wd1 (a 1gig disk). wd0 has a > >single partition with Windows 95 on it. I installed it over > >the net (though an ethernet card). The install seemed to go > >fine, but when it was done and I tried to reboot from > >the hard disk - I only got a message that I assume was comming > >from my BIOS asking me to insert a boot disk in drive A. > > >I had selected the option to have the boot manager installed, > >so I was expecting some type of menu to appear letting me pick > >either Windows 95 or FreeBSD. But it didn't. Should it have? > > >Using the FreeBSD boot disk, and typing wd(1,a)/kernel I found > >I could get FreeBSD running. But my previous -c changes were > >not there. Some of the message I had read in the help files > >led me to believe the kernel on that disk should have been > >changed. Doing a -c boot did allow my changes to be installed > >(or whatever it's called) in the kernel (or whereever the info > >is saved). > > >To be able to boot Windows 95 again, I booted my floopy Win 95 disk > >and used FDISK to set the Windows 95 partition to be "active". So > >my machine now automatically boots Windows 95, and if I insert the > >FreeBSD boot disk and type the correct info, I can boot FreeBSD. > >Now, what do I need to do to get the boot manager installed and > >working? > > >I couldn't find any info on this after reading though lots of "boot" > >related man pages. ... > But, I still haven't found anything on my boot problem, so if anyone > could shed some light, I'd appreceated it. > > Thanks, > curt@kcwc.com Hi Curt, I had a similar problem installing FreeBSD onto the second hard disk. After installing there was no active partition on the first drive, but I told FreeBSD not to install the boot manager. The solution is simply to install the boot manager "by hand". On the CD-ROM there is a DOS-program called "bootinst.exe" together with a file named "boot.bin" in the directory "tools". You should also find these at any site with a FreeBSD distribution. Boot DOS and start "bootinst.exe". This will install the FreeBSD boot manager (called boot-easy) to your system. In the directory "tools/dist" there should be one or two ZIP files called "bteasy*.zip" that contain a README. Cheers, Thomas