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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!hunter.premier.net!news.uoregon.edu!kaiwan.kaiwan.com!usenet From: lscolby@lscolby.com@lscolby@lscolby.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Installation Problem Date: 22 Jul 1996 01:08:47 GMT Organization: KAIWAN Internet (310-527-4279,818-756-0180,909-785-9712,714-638-4133,805-294-9338) Lines: 30 Message-ID: <4sukav$mlf@kaiwan.kaiwan.com> References: <31E021B4.49ED@triode.apana.org.au> Reply-To: lscolby@kaiwan.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kaiwan183.kaiwan.com X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2.5 Hello: I just installed Free BSD 2.1R on a system with OS2 and Windows NT. I use the OS2 boot manager to boot up. OS2 and Windows NT are on an eide drive; Free BSD is on a scsi drive. During installation configuration I choose "none" as the Free BSD boot manager option. During partitioning I marked the Free BSD partition bootable. Installation was uneventful. The reboot was unsuccessful as the OS2 boot manager partition was no longer marked active. I rebooted using a dos floppy and made the OS2 boot manager active. Rebooting was successful to the boot manager and I picked Free BSD as the OS to boot. The Free BSD boot prompt appeared and after a few seconds it started probing devices. It seemed to complete this phase, detected the scsi device and began a secondary boot process when it panicked with a mount to sda1. Do I need to give a parameter to the Free BSD boot prompt? If so, where can I find information about parameter values? If this is not the problem, any advice would be appreciated. Thanks, Colby lscolby@kaiwan.com