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Subject: kern/8476: BootEasy/FBSDBOOT not recognizing FreeBSD partition
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>Number:         8476
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       BootEasy/FBSDBOOT not recognizing FreeBSD partition
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:
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>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Oct 28 04:20:00 PST 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     J DG
>Organization:
>Release:        3.0
>Environment:
N/A
>Description:
Install/bootflop works great. I got the BotEasy Mgr installed on the first hard drive, and BSD installed on the fourth.

System Setup:
IDE0: Master 2 GB Quantum  (Fat/NT)
      Slave  500 MB Maxtor (Linux: Slack)
IDE1: Master 500 MB Maxtor (Linux: SuSE)
      Slave  4 GB Quantum  (FAT/BSD)
[OK, I have my own reasons for keeping the drives the way they are]

The CD-ROM is on a WD SCSI adapter that Linux and BSD do not support; I do the install by copying the files to partition 1 of IDE1Slave, then creating a boot floppy.

Everything goes OK, but on reboot after the install the BootEasy Manager locks up when I press F2 (F1 being Dos/95)
So I figure, alright, try the FBSDBOOT program...it works great for launching the install kernel, but gives me a baddisklabelCannotFind/kernel
message when I run it by itself. I have no other kernel with which to load (can GCC linux build a kernel for this, or do you need an assembler? If it can be done 
outside of BSD, with what tools and how do I obtain a live file system/unpacked source to do the compile?). My next try was with the dual-floppy boot method, 
trying to guess which menmonic would find my partition (actual location: /dev/wd3s3c  for /, 3d for swap, and 3e for usr; 3c is toggled bootable).
All guesses proved futile.


>How-To-Repeat:
With 4 IDE drives on a machine, install BSD on the last drive (partition 3 to be exact).
>Fix:
None yet, but I'm working on it. I could force a generic boot manager (LILO, syscomander, the SCO loader) to boot the correct partition. I could compile a kernel and boot it manually with FBSDBOOT. Other than that, I may be out of options...
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:

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