Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 01:41:33 -0600 (MDT) From: Atipa <freebsd@atipa.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Help! BootEasy is retarded! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980916012725.12189A-100000@altrox.atipa.com>
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Hi everyone, Am am finding a _most_ annoying problem w/ BootEasy. I have 2 disks (both 4.3GB IDE), w. Win98 (no FAT32; only fat16) on the first & FreeBSD on the 2nd. The FreeBSD disk is _not_ using compatibility slice (although i did try just to make sure...), and has its / as the first slice (way below 1024 cylinders I'm sure). Anyhow, after I install both OSes, all is happy. BootEasy comes up, and offers 2 choices, F1 for disk1 (win98) & F5 for disk2 (BSD). If I select F5 for BSD, it boots no problem and everything works. However, the P.O.S. switches the active partition from the 1st partition on disk one to the BSD partition on disk 2! ARGH! If I use FDISK (DOS's or BSD's) and switch the active partition back to where it should be (disk1, par 1), it all works again. I think the problem may be that when I tried to use the compatibility slice (a few installs back), I had BootMgr installed on _both_ disks (since the blurb on sysinstall mentions this may be right). Could that be blowing things up? How can I uninstall? fdisk /mbr only works on the primary partition. I remeber seeing somewhere: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rwd1 bs=1 count=512 or something like that, but I don't want to risk it without knowing for sure. Please help; this is aggravating the heck out of me. BTW - I am not subscribed to this list, so please respond directly. Many Thanks, John system is -STABLE as of a few days ago, although I am almost certain that has nothing to do with it... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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