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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!in-news.erinet.com!newsfeeder.sdsu.edu!news.sgi.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.ac.net!news1.erols.com!newsmaster@erols.com From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Installation Problem Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 09:24:35 -0700 Organization: Erols Internet Services Lines: 37 Message-ID: <31F64E43.7ACA@www.play-hookey.com> References: <31E021B4.49ED@triode.apana.org.au> <4sukav$mlf@kaiwan.kaiwan.com> 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) lscolby@lscolby.com@lscolby@lscolby.com wrote: > > 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. > You need to go through the -c | visual option and disable all devices you don't actually have, as well as make sure port and IRQ numbers are right. Even if you did this from the boot floppy, the numbers don't get transferred to the installed system. They will be remembered when you put them in as you boot from HD. -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |