From owner-freebsd-current Thu Nov 12 13:51:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA26267 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 13:51:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail2.tor.accglobal.net (mail2.tor.accglobal.net [204.92.55.104]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA26262 for ; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 13:51:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from josh@ican.net) Received: from staff.tor.acc.ca ([204.92.55.27]) by mail2.tor.accglobal.net with esmtp (Exim 2.02 #1) id 0ze4dU-0002NS-02 for current@freebsd.org; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 16:50:40 -0500 Received: from josh by staff.tor.acc.ca with local (Exim 1.92 #1) for current@freebsd.org id 0ze4dT-0003Q2-00; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 16:50:39 -0500 Message-ID: <19981112165039.32105@ican.net> Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 16:50:39 -0500 From: Josh Tiefenbach To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Problems/questions about boot blocks Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.74 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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: 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: The data for partition 3 is: The data for partition 4 is: da1: 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: The data for partition 3 is: The data for partition 4 is: josh -- Josh Tiefenbach - Member - ACC Corps of Internet Engineers - josh@ican.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message