From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 15 14:47: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tellab5.tellabs.com (tellab5.tellabs.com [138.111.243.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7B81414DEF for ; Wed, 15 Sep 1999 14:47:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mikebo@tellabs.com) Received: from tellabc.tellabs.com by tellab5.tellabs.com with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #4) id m11RMtJ-0003ZdC; Wed, 15 Sep 99 16:47 CDT Received: by tellabc.tellabs.com (4.1/1.9) id AA07157; Wed, 15 Sep 99 16:47:01 CDT From: mikebo@tellabs.com Message-Id: <9909152147.AA07157@tellabc.tellabs.com> Subject: Booting FreeBSD from drive D: To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 16:47:00 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1954 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greetings - I'm trying to install and boot FreeBSD from a 2nd SCSI disk. It installs OK, but will not boot using either BootEasy or System Commander booters. The machine is an HP Kayak XU with two SCSI disks. The first (C:) drive is 9GB and has three partitions on it: 1) DOS - 500M 2) Extended containing one virtual NTFS partition - 4GB 3) Solaris 7 - 4.5GB I added a second (D:) drive of 4GB. I was able to select, partition, and install FreeBSD on the D: drive. Then, I tried booting using the BootEasy manager that comes with FreeBSD. It could see the FreeBSD installation, but when I selected it, it would not boot. It complained that there was no boot record. I reinstalled, making sure to select "install standard FreeBSD boot record", and make the FreeBSD partition active on the D: drive (I dunno if this really did anything - but I suspect not). Same error. I thought this should work just fine, but maybe BootEasy has a problem in 3.2, So I tried installing the latest System Commander Deluxe (v 4.031). I can boot either NT or Solaris 7 on drive C: just fine. However, when I try to select FreeBSD from System Commander, it complains that "The operating system appears to have a defective boot record...". If I "ignore" the error, the system hangs. I've looked in the tutorials, FAQs, and the past few months "questions" archive but no luck. There's plenty of information about installing FreeBSD among other OSes on drive C:, but nothing about installing it and troubleshooting boot problems from drive D:. Can this be done? How? Thanks for any help. - Mike -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Borowiec -- mikebo@tellabs.com -- Tellabs Operations, Inc. Lead Engineer, Engineering Software Tools 4951 Indiana Ave., MS 57 630-512-8019 FAX: 630-512-7010 Lisle, IL 60532 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message