Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 16:50:39 -0500 From: Josh Tiefenbach <josh@ican.net> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Problems/questions about boot blocks Message-ID: <19981112165039.32105@ican.net>
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I'm having some problems setting up my machine to dual boot between FreeBSD
and Win98.
Specifics:
In the machine, there are two 2gig drives hooked up to the onboard ahc
controller (its an ASUS P2B-S board). I've installed 3.0-RELEASE onto
the first drive (ID 0), and I've formatted and sys'd the second drive (ID 1)
with win98.
Problem is, that no matter what I've tried, I havent been unable to get the
machine to boot from the win98 disk.
When the machine initially boots, I get the
F1: FreeBSD
prompt. Which is kinda odd, since I would have expected that the boot blocks
would have noted the existance of the second disk. When I try hitting F5 to
try to force booting off the second disk, I get a "Missing operating system"
message.
I *think* that I'm using the old boot-blocks, 'cause when I boot into FreeBSD,
I get the big honking instruction message, and its honoring the directives in
/boot.config, and firing up /boot/loader
Would using the new boot0 bootblocks help? How would I get them installed?
fdisk shows:
da0: <Quantum XP32150W L915> Fixed Direct Access SCSI2 device
madoff:~# fdisk -t /dev/rda0
******* Working on device /dev/rda0 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=720 heads=108 sectors/track=54 (5832 blks/cyl)
parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=720 heads=108 sectors/track=54 (5832 blks/cyl)
Media sector size is 512
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
start 54, size 4198986 (2050 Meg), flag 80 (active)
beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1;
end: cyl 719/ sector 54/ head 107
The data for partition 2 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 3 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 4 is:
<UNUSED>
da1: <Quantum XP32150W L915> Fixed Direct Access SCSI2 device
madoff:~# fdisk -t /dev/rda1
******* Working on device /dev/rda1 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=261 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)
parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=261 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)
Media sector size is 512
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 6,(Primary 'big' DOS (> 32MB))
start 63, size 4192902 (2047 Meg), flag 80 (active)
beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1;
end: cyl 260/ sector 63/ head 254
The data for partition 2 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 3 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 4 is:
<UNUSED>
josh
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Josh Tiefenbach - Member - ACC Corps of Internet Engineers - josh@ican.net
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