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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!cs.utexas.edu!atlantis.utmb.edu!news From: bdodson@beowulf.utmb.edu (M. L. Dodson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: BOOT PROBLEM Date: 5 Feb 1997 21:03:01 GMT Organization: The Sealy Center for Molecular Science Lines: 67 Distribution: world Message-ID: <5dasi6$s0k@atlantis.utmb.edu> References: <32f6c715.842721@news.winternet.com> Reply-To: bdodson@beowulf.utmb.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: beowulf.utmb.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35166 In article <32f6c715.842721@news.winternet.com>, ttv@winternet.com (Thomas Veldhouse) writes: >Simple! I can't boot. > > Nowhere in the stupid installation of the system does it ever >ask you to make a boot disk. Even Linux does this. I do not want to >mess with my MBR on my primary drive under any circumstances. Excess paranoia, methinks. >If this >is required to run this, then it isn't very versitile at all and 2.1.6 >is going back to Walnut Creek. With your attitude, probably no great loss. >However, here is the problem. > > I have two disks on my system and a CD-ROM. [irrelevancies deleted] >However, there is no floppy to boot from >using FreeBSD. Or if the Boot floppy works, there is absolutely no >documentation on this. Pick a floppy, any floppy, in the distribution. It will give you the option to boot a hard disk partition when you boot with it. Just follow the instructions. No need for extensive documentation when the system explicitly instructs you what you need to do. >I find this frustrating as hell and hope that >this lack of documentation isn't going to be ongoing. > In the eye of the beholder, I would say. I will predict that you won't be happy, given your attitude and total lack of interest in any experimentation and requirement that all questions that might possibly come up be anticipated and the answers spelled out for you. Remember these words of wisdom: "The way to learn how to use a computer is to use a computer" and "You can't break it by pressing the keys." > If anybody gets this far, could you please help me get my >system booted into FreeBSD. It is all installed, but I can't find a >way to boot into it. I did specify that the OS Loader (whatever they >called it, be loaded onto the root of my second hard drive. The >kernel should be in place). Then you should be ready to go. Try not to be so quick on the trigger next time. You will find the FreeBSD community extremely helpful if you approach us with some attitude other than that we are all idiots. If you think Linux does it better, then maybe that gives you the answer to which of the two operating systems is best for you. > >Tom Veldhouse >ttv@winternet.com -- M. L. Dodson bdodson@scms.utmb.edu 409-772-2178 FAX: 409-772-1790