From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 2 12:37:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ferdinand.ucsf.edu (ferdinand.ucsf.edu [128.218.67.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C53F837B9F1 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 12:37:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steve@ferdinand.ucsf.edu) Received: (from steve@localhost) by ferdinand.ucsf.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA04527; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 12:36:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steve) Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 12:36:56 -0700 From: Steve Sizemore To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Paul Herman Subject: Re: Multiboot linux + freebsd on two drives Message-ID: <20000802123655.A4511@cmpharm.ucsf.edu> References: <20000801093235.C87514@cmpharm.ucsf.edu> <20000802122757.A24316@cmpharm.ucsf.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <20000802122757.A24316@cmpharm.ucsf.edu>; from steve@adsl-63-194-196-21.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net on Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 12:27:57PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 11:14:28PM +0200, Paul Herman wrote: > On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Steve Sizemore wrote: > > > This is good info - thanks. Having done that, I can now boot linux > > (via LILO) from FreeBSD's BootEasy. I still can't boot FreeBSD, > > however, which is my real goal. (I still think that the problem is with > > boot1 or boot2.) > > > > Does anyone know how to make FreeBSD on /dev/da1s1 actually bootable? > > Thanks. > > What kind of errors do you get? There are two boot loaders, the small > one that gives you the boot: (not literaly, I hope! :) and the > "loader" which counts down the seconds for you. The error message is a beep. I get the list of selections, press F5 for "other disk" and then a new list of selections - F1 for FreeBSD, F5 for other disk. F5 takes me back to the first disk (containing linux), but F5 simply beeps. (That's why I think the problem is with boot1 or boot2.) Depending on how you define a boot loader, and assuming that I understand the man pages I've been reading, there could actually be four: boot0 (seems to be working) boot1 (probably not working) boot2 (status unknown) loader (never gets loaded) Admittedly, I could be wrong, but I think that if boot2 would load, then I could make it work. :-) I believe that boot2 is the program which boots from the floppy and allows me to load my kernel with the command "1:da(0,a)/kernel". I'm just not sure how to tell whether boot1 is booting and/or working. My current hypothesis is that boot0 is working, but either can't find, or can't load, boot1 from /dev/da1s1. Anyone know how to test this? Thanks. Steve -- ----------------------------------------------#-----#--#####--------------- # # # # Steve Sizemore # # # Dept. of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology # # # Box 0450, Room HSE-1285 # # # University of California Medical Center # # # # 513 Parnassus Avenue ##### ##### ##### ####### San Francisco CA 94143-0450 # # # # # steve@cmpharm.ucsf.edu ##### ##### (415) 476-6987 FAX: (415) 476-6515 # # # # # -------------------------------------------------------------#####--#------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message