Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 19:02:04 -0400 From: "Jesse D. Guardiani" <jesse@wingnet.net> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: dual boot WXP + FreeBSD Message-ID: <baec1s$g31$1@main.gmane.org>
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Howdy list, I've had a terrible day. It was exclusively spent getting slapped around by WXP and FreeBSD. To my great surprise, FreeBSD has offered the most solid resistance. The Challenge! ----------------- I'm trying to set up a WXP + FreeBSD dual boot using the WXP boot loader on my new (to me) IBM Thinkpad A30p. I know exactly what must be done and in what order. However, the specifics of one little step are escaping me. This is the page I'm using for reference (and the pages it refers to): http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=70352+0+archive/2003/freebsd-mobile/20030413.freebsd-mobile How far have I gotten? -------------------------- I have successfully resized my WXP slice with BootIt NG and created/installed FreeBSD on a second (or third, if you count the IBM recovery slice) slice. WXP is booting fine and I have NOT modified the boot sectors in any way. This was no small feat considering I didn't have the recovery console installed before I resized the WXP slice and I didn't have the IBM Recovery CD... but that's a story for another day. So what's the problem? --------------------------- How the heck do I access /boot/boot1 on my FreeBSD slice once I reboot after installtion?!? I need to copy /boot/boot1 to a floppy so that I can reference it from the WXP boot loader config file. But WXP is on the bootable slice, and setting the FreeBSD slice as bootable gives a "OS not found" error from the BIOS. I've tried loading the fixit media and executing the following: mount /dev/ad0s1 /mnt But I get superblock errors. The darn thing won't mount. Help! Thanks. -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net
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