From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 10 05:44:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA01383 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 05:44:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from ren.globecomm.net (ren.globecomm.net [207.51.48.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id FAA01367 for ; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 05:44:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tanvir@mail.org) Received: from mail.org (mg134-136.ricochet.net [204.179.134.136]) by ren.globecomm.net (8.8.8/8.8.0) with ESMTP id IAA09949; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 08:44:21 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <34B77B5A.A2D8BE48@mail.org> Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 05:44:58 -0800 From: Tanvir Hassan Reply-To: tanvir@mail.org X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.02 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dirk-Willem van Gulik CC: Rudy Gireyev , FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Install problems with Jaz References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hmm. I have an IDE with BootEasy on it and one scsi disk (id 0) and one jaz disk (id 6). When BootEasy comes up it gives me F1: DOS, F5: disk2 and no indication of any jaz disk. When I hit F5 it just says No Operating System and then Invalid Partition table and dies. I rebooted into my install disk and wrote out a boot sector on my Jaz disk, but of course I cannot get BootEasy to see that disk and boot it. What do I need to do to get this to work? BTW, the install floppy seemed to see the Jaz fine along with all the swap and normal partitions... Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: > > > > > > > I installed freebsd onto a Jaz disk and things seemed to work with the > > > aha2940 drivers. There was an initial complaint about an inability to > > > get geometry info from the jaz disk but it seemed to guess the right > > > values and the install went all the way through with tons of disk > > access > > > without errors. > > > > > > But, now I have a stupid question. I didn't want the freebsd to > > > overwrite my MBR, so how do I boot this disk? I tried to use my initial > > > boot disk to point it to the scsi disk but it never seems to find it! > > > Is that geometry problem coming back to haunt me? > > Hmm, eventually you will _have_ to install a boot manager of some sort; > Expect for the case where you are willing to go into the BIOS setup > and change the boot order (C:, D:, CDROM,..) time and time again. > > I use booteasy and a Jaz drive in much the same manner and can boot > between versions of FreeBSD, NetBSD, W95, NT and Linux just fine. The > only notable exception is Solaris :-( for which I have to go into the > bios. Anyway, I simply get something along the lines of F1, BSD, F2 > Dos, f5 Next disk, and can cycle through the 4 drives just fine. > I use an Adaptec 2940 and 2x external Jaz and 1x SCSI disk. The master/ > first disk is on the build in IDE. This is also where I've put the > BootEasy boot manager. > > Dw.