From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 8 14:44:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ginger.kf7nn.com (mti-r1-aptis-4-p2001.cybertrails.com [162.42.15.208]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8B5E15030 for ; Sun, 8 Aug 1999 14:44:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@ginger.kf7nn.com) Received: (from root@localhost) by ginger.kf7nn.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA16447; Sun, 8 Aug 1999 09:03:57 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from root) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Sun, 08 Aug 1999 09:03:56 -0700 (MST) From: vagner@WWW.TIMANDPATRICK.COM To: Peter Horst Subject: RE: Pre-newbie dual-boot Win98/FreeBSD3.2 w/Partition Magic & Bo Cc: Freebsd-Questions Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG try os-bs thay say its "smarter" i believe its in the tools directory. osbs20b8.exe i believe On 08-Aug-99 Peter Horst wrote: > I've been attempting to install FreeBSD on a second primary partition (on an > 8G drive) I created using Partition Magic 4.0. According to the PM > diagnostics, both OSs are within the first 1024 cylinders. I have installed > Boot Magic (bundled w/PM). Here's the problem: > > *When I set the newly created partition "active," and rebooted to the > FreeBSD CDROM, I was able to complete the installation sequence just fine. > In this case I chose not to install the FreeBSD boot manager, assuming Boot > Magic would handle the MBR chores. With Boot Magic enabled, upon rebooting > and attempting to access FreeBSD I got a "Read Error," and had to escape out > to Win98. > > *When I installed FBSD for the *n*th time, now selecting the FBSD boot > manager, I was able to shut down then reboot into FBSD no problem. But from > Boot Easy I couldn't load Win98 (I am prompted incessantly to enter the > filepath of the command line interpreter, and nothing I try has any effect. > I used a BM boot diskette to rewrite the MBR (I think this is what was > happening) just so I could get back to Win98. I should mention that by this > point I had created a tiny FAT16 partition on the hard drive between Win98 & > FBSD, following a tip in the installation documentation that perhaps this > would make it easier for FBSD to correctly interpret the disk's physical > geometry. > > It's as if FreeBSD's boot manager won't recognize Win98, while PM/BM won't > recognize FreeBSD. I am afraid that if I uninstall BM completely I'll never > get back to Win98... > > Does this question EVEN make sense? I've been reading the documentation but > am obviously missing something...I hope someone can help... ---------------------------------- E-Mail: vagner@vagner.com or kf7nn@kf7nn.com Date: 08-Aug-99 Time: 09:02:43 There are revolutions that are sweeping the world and we in America have been in a position of trying to stop them. With all the wealth of America, with all of the military strength of America, those revolutions are revolutions against a form of political and economic organization in the countries of Asia and the Middle East that are oppressive. They are revolutions against feudalism. [1952] -- Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas This message was sent using FreeBSD Unix. ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message