Re: Urgent FreeBSD Boot question! -- Almost there!

2006-03-20 Thread Peter Jeremy
As mentioned, this belongs on freebsd-qyestions, not freebsd-stable. Also, could you please keep your questions as a single thread - it makes it much easier to follow. On Mon, 2006-Mar-20 18:43:04 -0600, Benjamin Sher wrote: >FreeBS/i386 boot >Default: 1: ad (1,a) default >No /boot/kernel/kernel >

Re: Urgent FreeBSD Boot question! -- Almost there!

2006-03-20 Thread Kevin Oberman
> Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 18:43:04 -0600 > From: Benjamin Sher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Dear Kevin: > > You sure know your stuff, Kevin. No question about it. I am almost > there. The only problem is that when I boot up to the new FreeBSD system > (CD unselected and hardrive selected in boot sequ

Re: Urgent FreeBSD Boot question!

2006-03-20 Thread Kevin Oberman
> Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 17:44:28 -0500 > From: Benjamin Sher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Dear Kevin: > > Sounds great! Just what I need. One question before I proceed: what is > the holographic shell. Please be specific and provide step-by-step > instructions. I am a bit

Re: Urgent FreeBSD Boot question!

2006-03-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear Kevin: Sounds great! Just what I need. One question before I proceed: what is the holographic shell. Please be specific and provide step-by-step instructions. I am a bit nervous about this kind of brain surgery. Thank you again. Benjamin To write the MBR on the firs

Re: Urgent FreeBSD Boot question!

2006-03-20 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Kevin: Sounds great! Just what I need. One question before I proceed: what is the holographic shell. Please be specific and provide step-by-step instructions. I am a bit nervous about this kind of brain surgery. Thank you again. Benjamin To write the MBR on the first disk, just boot the

Re: Urgent FreeBSD Boot question! -- Addendum

2006-03-20 Thread Jung-uk Kim
On Monday 20 March 2006 04:44 pm, Benjamin Sher wrote: > Dear friends: > > I have an old but very reliable Dell Dimension 8200 that's 6 years > old. It does not have a boot option for both of my separate hard > disks. The only BOOT options are: floppy, CD or hard drive. That's > why I need the boot

Re: Urgent FreeBSD Boot question!

2006-03-20 Thread Kevin Oberman
> Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 16:43:25 -0500 > From: Benjamin Sher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Dear friends: > > I decided to go out and buy the latest issue of Linux Format with the > FreeBSD 6 CD. I am very glad I did. FreeBSD is tough to install, but > after spending several

Re: Urgent FreeBSD Boot question!

2006-03-20 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 04:43 PM 20/03/2006, Benjamin Sher wrote: I read the instructions about the FreeBSD Boot Manager. It said clearly that it should allow switching from one OS to another. But I did not see any configuration for that. How, may I ask, do I do this while installing FreeBSD? Google around for "Wi

Re: Urgent FreeBSD Boot question! -- Addendum

2006-03-20 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: I have an old but very reliable Dell Dimension 8200 that's 6 years old. It does not have a boot option for both of my separate hard disks. The only BOOT options are: floppy, CD or hard drive. That's why I need the boot manager solution. Thank you again. Benjamin _

Re: Urgent FreeBSD Boot question! -- Addendum

2006-03-20 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: I have an old but very reliable Dell Dimension 8200 that's 6 years old. It does not have a boot option for both of my separate hard disks. The only BOOT options are: floppy, CD or hard drive. That's why I need the boot manager solution. Thank you again. Benjamin __