From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Apr 14 23:04:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA01179 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 23:04:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from news1.gtn.com (news1.gtn.com [192.109.159.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA01158 for ; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 06:04:45 GMT (envelope-from andreas@klemm.gtn.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news1.gtn.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with UUCP id IAA20692; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 08:00:09 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from andreas@localhost) by klemm.gtn.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA15793; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 07:53:13 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from andreas) Message-ID: <19980415075312.25337@klemm.gtn.com> Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 07:53:12 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm To: lrios , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and NT References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: ; from lrios on Tue, Apr 14, 1998 at 02:58:23PM -0400 X-Disclaimer: A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT SMP Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Tue, Apr 14, 1998 at 02:58:23PM -0400, lrios wrote: > Heres my situation: > > I've installed FreeBSD on one physical disk and NT on another. I included > boot easy with the install which should of booted either OS ?? At the > moment I get the booteasy prompt menu with F1 going to FreeBSD and F5 > going to disk two.. When I try to select FreeBSD it simply loops to the > same prompt. When I try to boot off the second disk I get missing > operating system... Am I doing something wrong?? If so what is it and > what can I do to correct this issue???? Did you use the same drive geometry on both disks ? To be more specific, did you install FreeBSD with a cooperative partitioning, which allows booting multiple OS's ?! During FreeBSD installation you have been prompted for that and I hope you choosed the correct option. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Disk name: sd0 FDISK Partition Editor DISK Geometry: 2063 cyls/64 heads/32 sectors = 4225024 sectors Offset Size End Name PType Desc Subtype Flags !-> 0 32 31 - 6 unused 0 32 1638368 1638399 sd0s1 2 fat 6 !-> 1638400 2586624 4225023 sd0s2 3 freebsd 165 C> !-> 4225024 1701 4226724 - 6 unused 0 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Does it look like this ? Or is this a "one liner" ? You can see this by calling /stand/sysinstall Menue: Custom->Partition -- Andreas Klemm http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~andreas What gives you 90% more speed, for example in kernel compilation ? http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~fsmp/SMP/akgraph-a/graph1.html powered by ,,symmetric multiprocessor FreeBSD'' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message