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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!news.seinf.abb.se!nooft.abb.no!Norway.EU.net!nntp.uio.no!news.cais.net!news1.erols.com!newsmaster@erols.com From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Can't Boot frrom Boot Floppy (HELP!) Date: Wed, 03 Jul 1996 13:52:54 -0700 Organization: Erols Internet Services Lines: 71 Message-ID: <31DADDA6.6FE1@www.play-hookey.com> References: <4rdsdt$mm4@earth.alpha.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) To: Ron Higgins <rhiggins@earth.execpc.com> Ron Higgins wrote: > > HELP! > > I am attempting to install FreeBSD v2.1 on my system at home. I have the > Walnut Creek CD-ROM version of FreeBSD 2.1. > > The problem I am having is that I cannot get the system to boot a FreeBSD > boot floppy. > > I have tried three different boot floppies so far, and no luck. The first > boot floppy is one that I've had, and used to boot and install two systems > so far. The second is one is one that I made from the FreeBSD CD-ROM with > the makeflp.bat command, and the third is one that I made with rawrite and > a new boot.flp image from the FreeBSD FTP site. > > What happens is that the system will briefly look at the floppy, as if it > boot from there, and then proceed directly to the HD and boot the OS/2 > boot manager. Check your BIOS Setup. I'll bet 6 cookies and a donut that your boot order is C, then A or else it is C only. You'll have to change it to A, then C to boot from floppy. > > The system is a Pentium 133 with 512k of cache, 32 meg of EDO memory, > Adaptec 2940UW SCSI controller, Conner 2.1gig Fast-Wide SCSI drive, Sony > 4x SCSI CD-ROM, Teac floppy, Award BIOS, CTI Motherboard with the Intel > VX chipset ISA/PCI, Matrox MGA Millenium 4meg Video card, Soundblaster 16. > > I got the boot floppy to boot once, way back, early in the evening, but > had the partitions set up wrong with OS/2's boot manager. Fix that, but > haven't been able to boot a FreeBSD floppy again. > > Since I don't have DOS on the system, I can't install from the CD-ROM > that way, and even if I loaded DOS on the system, I don't have any CD-ROM > drivers for DOS. > > The only operating system I have installed at this time is OS/2 Warp. I > tried installing from a DOS full-screen, but that didn't work either. > > Looks like my only alternative is to boot off of the floppy, but I can't > get the system to do that! I can boot into DOS from the floppy drive, so > I know that the drive is good. > > I have the OS/2 boot manager set up as follows: > Boot Manager ?? meg > DOS Primary 100 meg > DOS logical 100 meg > HPFS logical 300 meg (OS/2 boot) > HPFS logical 600 meg (OS/2 data) > 9xx (whatever was left) for FreeBSD > > I plan on installing DOS/Windows on the DOS primary partition (when I have > a chance), but would like to get FreeBSD installed first. > > Also, for the dopcumentation people, I couldn't find anything on whether > or not FreeBSD will boot from a logical partition located above the 540 > meg limit. > > Please reply to the e-mail address listed below. > Thanks, > -- > Ron Higgins | Lightning Systems | Lightning Systems > rhiggins@execpc.com | (414) 363-4282 200megs | P. O. Box 4 > http://www.cc.edu/~rhiggins/ | 33.6k USR Dual Standard | Mukwonago, WI 53149 > ** Ask me about the Turbo ASB for your Apple // Computer ** CC sent. Ken