Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 23:47:02 +0200 From: Andreas Ntaflos <ntaflos.andreas@gmx.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: win98 (sorry!) and freebsd, wont boot? Message-ID: <39777355.254E5262@gmx.net>
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yo, i am having a little problem. for some reason, i want to have win98 + freebsd 4.0 on my disk (i know, i suck, but the cd copying progs under freebsd arent very useful for me, so i need win). anyway, i have a 14 gig hdd (1757/255/63), completely empty and booted with a win98 bootdisk. formatting the whole disk, then using fips to partition it. ~10 gigs at the beginning of the disk and ~3 comma something gigs at the end, so the 10 gig part almost fits under the 1024th cylinder (a couple of 100 megs or so are above the 1024th, up to the ~1200th i think). well, using dos fdisk to change the active partition to the small one (3 gigs) and everything is fine. ocasionally i need to format the small part again. then i delete the 10gig partition with dos fdisk and install win98 on the 3 gig part. this is a procedure that should work, isnt it? it worked with linux, however. so after installing win, i can of course only boot into win and that works, too. then problems come up. booting with the freebsd 4.0 release cd i want to install freebsd. looking at the freebsd partitioning tool shows that there is a fat partition at the end of the disk, as it should be. i then use the whole free space before that fat partion for the freebsd system (type 165). both partitions of course have the '>' sign at the right, but that should be ok, shouldn't it? however, there are no '=' signs anywhere... using the freebsd boot manager afterwards. disk labeling is the next thing, creating the slices /, /var, swap, /usr. a dos slice without mount point is there too, as it should be (?). then installing freebsd, configuring, blah blah blah. everything ok, no problems. rebooting: F1 FREEBSD F2 DOS Default: F1 F1 works, booting freebsd works fine. F2, however, doesnt. pressing F2 just proofs that the speaker and the loud and annoying <BEEEEEEP> work. i cant boot into win98, it wouldnt work. so, please, does anyone know what i did wrong? anyone had the same problems? anyone knowing what i am talking about? anyone out there who can help me? sorry for that long and weird mail, i've of course read the docs and stuff, but didnt find anything useful. thanks in advance regards Andreas Ntaflos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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