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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.webspan.net!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Unable to Boot From New BSD Drive Date: Sat, 07 Sep 1996 17:59:13 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 23 Message-ID: <32321A61.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> References: <3228D0E3.41DB@augusta.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: Chris Scarff <trackster@augusta.net> Chris Scarff wrote: > I would REALLY like to boot from a floppy disk like I do with Linux. You could do that at any time. Just do: boot: wd(1,a)/kernel At the boot prompt of your installation (boot.flp) floppy. > When I do tell it to use a boot manager (because nothing else has > worked so far) the 1.2 gig HD (primary) doesn't use the boot manager. I'm not surprised that nothing has worked so far since you're clearly not the type to read the directions at all, and now this has gotten you into trouble again. :-) If you had, you'd know that a boot manager is *mandatory* on your first drive if you want to boot from the second one. The PC itself is incapable of booting from any drive other than 0 (a fact also covered in the docs) and a boot manager is how the boot is "chained" to the second drive. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project