🚀 go-pugleaf

Bothwell Computers wrote in message <34c14c02.0@news.wincom.net>...
>Intention:
>Install freeBSD on dirve e: with DOS remaining on drives c:, d:, f:, and
g:.
>What I've done so far:  Using the novice installation via the freeBSD boot
>disk I have made e: drive my bsd drive.  I have (apparently) loaded the bsd
>kernel into e: drive.  This part seems to go allright since the
installation
>takes me all the way through to setting up user accounts etc.
>Problems:
>1.  Unable to make the "boot-easy" boot manager work from my first DOS c:.
>Boot-easy is in fact loaded on c: drive but it never recognizes my bsd e:
>drive. I.e., whenever I boot up my computer I get the following displayed:
>F1 ... dos
>Default:  F?
>Apparently, boot-easy only recognizes my DOS c: drive as a bootable option.
>If the boot-easy boot manager was working correctly I suspect that it would
>display something like this:
>F1 ... dos
>F2 ... freeBSD
>Default:  F?
>
>computer:
>Compaq XL 466
>80486 DX2 66MHz
>RAM: 16 MB
>hardrives:
>c: 52.2 MB  IDE
>d: 538.8 MB  IDE
>e: 328 MB HP  SCSI
>f: 52 MB Quantum SCSI
>g: 80 MB IBM  SCSI
>floppies:  3.5"
>com1: 3F8 - 3FF IRQ 4
>com2: 2F8 - 2FF IRQ 3
>lpt1: 378 -37A IRQ 7 DMA 0
>mouse:   IRQ12
>
>Thanks
>Maris

I tried something like that too with no success.  I do know that DOS cannot
see any drive w/ unix.  If you used walnut creek free bsd then try F5 as the
boot command but you were supposed to make a boot floppy first so you can
boot from there.  You still wnet further than I did.
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