Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 07:53:12 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> To: lrios <lrios@ziplink.net>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and NT Message-ID: <19980415075312.25337@klemm.gtn.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980414145343.3592A-100000@zip1.ziplink.net>; from lrios on Tue, Apr 14, 1998 at 02:58:23PM -0400 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980414145343.3592A-100000@zip1.ziplink.net>
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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
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