From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 20 16:04:17 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D2DF37B401 for ; Tue, 20 May 2003 16:04:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EB2743F93 for ; Tue, 20 May 2003 16:04:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-mobile@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19IG6q-0004Ks-00 for ; Wed, 21 May 2003 01:01:28 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19IG5d-0004Hq-00 for ; Wed, 21 May 2003 01:00:13 +0200 From: "Jesse D. Guardiani" Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 19:02:04 -0400 Lines: 53 Message-ID: X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Sender: news Subject: dual boot WXP + FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 23:04:17 -0000 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