From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 9 09:09:26 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1FB316A4CE for ; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 09:09:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: from brmea-mail-3.sun.com (brmea-mail-3.Sun.COM [192.18.98.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEC0143D49 for ; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 09:09:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Peter.Weiss@Sun.COM) Received: from sun-gy.germany ([129.157.128.5]) by brmea-mail-3.sun.com (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i598FgcP004313 for ; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 02:15:42 -0600 (MDT) Received: from Winona.Germany.Sun.COM (winona [129.157.133.118]) i598FfBg022300 for ; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 10:15:41 +0200 (MEST) Received: from Winona.Germany.Sun.COM (localhost [IPv6:::1]) i598FfCM006675 for ; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 10:15:41 +0200 (MEST) Received: (from pw105345@localhost)i598Fflm006674; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 10:15:41 +0200 (MEST) X-Authentication-Warning: winona.Germany.Sun.COM: pw105345 set sender to Peter.Weiss@Sun.com using -f To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org From: Peter.Weiss@Sun.COM (Peter Weiss, Sun Microsystems, Germany) Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 10:15:40 +0200 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090013 (Oort Gnus v0.13) Emacs/21.3 (sparc-sun-solaris2.9) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Multiboot problems with FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 09:09:26 -0000 Hello, this setting used to work, but after using the recovery cd to reinstall my notebook FreeBSD partition is unable to boot. Disklayout: ad0s1: Wintendo (active) ad0s2: extended partition, several logical linux partitions ad0s3: FreeBSD ad0s4: small fallback linux installation What I did: o Installed a minimal FreeBSD on ad0s3a from CD (5.2.1) o disklabel -B ad0s3 IMHO is the problem somewhere in this area, Linux loader lilo does not seem to find any boot code to start FreeBSD. o boot0cfg -B ad0 Even boot0 does not boot ad0s3a, though it offers it at startup, but it starts and is able to start the Wintendo partition. Linux does not work of course, cause it's installed in the extended partition (Finally I'd like to use Linux lilo to start the system). Activating ad0s3 is not possible because the bios needs to have ad0s1 to be the active patition in order to recognize the disk. And before restore FreeBSD resided on ad0s2 and could be bootet this way. Any help on this would be _greatly_ appreciated. Peter -- Peter Weiss / Peter.Weiss@germany.sun.com Sun Microsystems GmbH / Sonnenallee 1, D-85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten (+49 89) 46008 2947 / mobil 0177/ 60 40 121