From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 15 00:31:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA00879 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 15 Jun 1997 00:31:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (root@agora.rdrop.com [199.2.210.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA00873 for ; Sun, 15 Jun 1997 00:31:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from azure (azure.bayarea.net [204.71.213.6]) by agora.rdrop.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA25010 for ; Sun, 15 Jun 1997 00:01:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by azure (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id AAA00306; Sun, 15 Jun 1997 00:00:59 -0700 Message-Id: <199706150700.AAA00306@azure> X-Authentication-Warning: azure.bayarea.net: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.7 5/3/96 To: FREEBSD-QUESTIONS@freebsd.org cc: azure!proett@agora.rdrop.com Reply-to: proett@bayarea.net Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 00:00:57 -0700 From: Tom Proett Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have a two scsi disk system and I would like to be able to boot from the second disk. Right now, I can boot from disk zero which has booteasy installed. Here is the output from fdisk for both disks: ******* Working on device /dev/rsd0 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=4101 heads=64 sectors/track=32 (2048 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=4101 heads=64 sectors/track=32 (2048 blks/cyl) Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 0 is: sysid 6,(Primary 'big' DOS (> 32MB)) start 32, size 1331168 (649 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1; end: cyl 649/ sector 32/ head 63 The data for partition 1 is: sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 1331200, size 7067648 (3451 Meg), flag 80 beg: cyl 650/ sector 1/ head 0; end: cyl 1023/ sector 32/ head 63 The data for partition 2 is: The data for partition 3 is: ******* Working on device /dev/rsd1 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=1685 heads=64 sectors/track=32 (2048 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=1685 heads=64 sectors/track=32 (2048 blks/cyl) Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 0 is: sysid 6,(Primary 'big' DOS (> 32MB)) start 32, size 409568 (199 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1; end: cyl 199/ sector 32/ head 63 The data for partition 1 is: sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 409600, size 3041302 (1485 Meg), flag 80 beg: cyl 200/ sector 1/ head 0; end: cyl 661/ sector 22/ head 0 The data for partition 2 is: The data for partition 3 is: If I install booteasy on the second disk and try to boot dos from the first partition, I get "Non-System disk or disk error". If I try to boot freebsd (2.1.5) from the second partition of the second disk I just get "F?" from booteasy. If I remove booteasy from the second disk and make the first partition active, I *can* boot dos. If I make the second partition active, I get "Missing Operating System". I checked for this in the FAQ and found some information but still have the problem. The FAQ talks about the "Ontrack Disk Manager" but what I found on the CD was booteasy. Are they they same thing? Since I don't have extended translation turned on, I believe the geometry shown above is what is called for in the FAQ. I do have dos partitions as the first partition on both disks. The output from pfdisk under dos gives some "notes" that I don't understand: # Partition table on device: 0 geometry 1023 64 32 (cyls heads sectors) # ID First(cyl) Last(cyl) Name # start, length (sectors) 1 6 0 649 DOSbi # 32, 1331168 2 165 650 4100 unkno # 1331200, 7067648 # note: last(2): phys=(1023,63,32) logical=(4100,63,32) 3 0 0 0 empty # 0, 0 4 0 0 0 empty # 0, 0 active: 1 # Partition table on device: 1 geometry 1023 64 32 (cyls heads sectors) # ID First(cyl) Last(cyl) Name # start, length (sectors) 1 6 0 199 DOSbi # 32, 409568 2 165 200 1685 unkno # 409600, 3041302 # note: last(2): phys=(661,0,22) logical=(1685,0,22) # note: last(2): phys=(661,0,22) should be (661,63,32) 3 0 0 0 empty # 0, 0 4 0 0 0 empty # 0, 0 active: 2 If anybody has any ideas what is wrong, please email me. Thanks, Tom Proett -- Tom Proett proett@bayarea.net PGP Key fingerprint = 67 7C 02 87 34 0E 52 57 5A 12 31 1B E0 AE AF 50 PGP Key size = 2047 -- Tom Proett proett@bayarea.net PGP Key fingerprint = 67 7C 02 87 34 0E 52 57 5A 12 31 1B E0 AE AF 50 PGP Key size = 2047