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Subject: BSD does'nt get booted when DOS partition exists 
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>Number:         16801
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       BSD does'nt get booted when DOS partition exists
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    grog
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Feb 18 01:00:01 PST 2000
>Closed-Date:    Fri Feb 18 15:22:51 PST 2000
>Last-Modified:  Fri Feb 18 15:33:35 PST 2000
>Originator:     Balaji
>Release:        2.2.5
>Organization:
Prosoft Information Systems
>Environment:
>Description:

I am facing problems in installing FreeBSD which came with a book
which I purchased. 

The problems are,

1. I was not able to boot from the CD

2. I created floppy which contained the Boot image, the installation
   started of smoothly, but when the installation program tried to
   access the CD-ROM drive it said the version was incorrect - "Do you
   want to continue" I said OK continue. After that it stopped with an
   error saying that some files were not found and came out of the
   installation process.

3. I created a DOS partion of 2GB which had DOS 6.22 OS on that
   partition. From there by accessing the CD-ROM drive I tried to
   xcopy program and dump the contents of the CD on the DOS partition
   but the copy failed inbetween while it was trying to copy some
   files from the CD-ROM\AIX\ folder which had some characters like
   "++-" etc.., then I ran the SETUP program to copy the required
   files on to the DOS partition.

4. From the DOS partion I started the install.bat program, while
   partitioning I configured another 2GB for FreeBSD nad wile
   configuring filesystems I alloted 600MB for "/" , 600MB for "/usr",
   600MB for "/var" and the rest for "swap"

5. The copying of files and all went on smoothly and after all the
   copying is over is came back to the same menu where I selected the
   type of installation i.e, Novice from where I selected to "Exit
   Install"

6. But after all this too when the machine rebooted it asked for the
   default boot "DOS or BSD" i.e, F1 or F2, I selected F2 to boot
   through BSD but it was not happening it was again and again asking
   me to press F1 or F2 when I press F1 machine boots through DOS.


Note: 

1. I made the FreeBSD partition "Set Bootable" while creating
   partitions - Still the same problem.

2. I tried with "LBA" and "Normal" settings for the Harddisk in the
   CMOS setup - Still the same problem prevails.

Can you give me suggestions and ideas of how I could solve this problem.

>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: grog 
State-Changed-When: Fri Feb 18 15:22:51 PST 2000 
State-Changed-Why:  
Not a bug. 


Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->grog 
Responsible-Changed-By: grog 
Responsible-Changed-When: Fri Feb 18 15:22:51 PST 2000 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
grog closed this PR. 
>Unformatted:
Greg Lehey, 19 February 2000

Fixed document format, which was one line per paragraph.  Please do
not write lines of more than 80 characters except where they represent
computer output.

FreeBSD 2.2.5 dates from November 1997 and is no longer supported.
You also do not state which book you got the CD with, nor who made
it.  Based on the mention of a "folder" AIX, it does not appear to be
the standard Walnut Creek distribution.

Based on this lack of information, I can't help you.  I'm pretty sure
it's not a documentation bug, though, so I'm closing the PR.  If you
want help installing, read http://www.lemis.com/questions.html and
send a question to FreeBSD-questions.
