Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 00:35:05 +0200 (CEST) From: Marc Schneiders <marc@oldserver.demon.nl> To: mikebo@tellabs.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD from drive D: Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909160024470.10422-100000@mistress.oldserver.demon.nl> In-Reply-To: <9909152147.AA07157@tellabc.tellabs.com>
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On Wed, 15 Sep 1999 mikebo@tellabs.com wrote: > Greetings - > I'm trying to install and boot FreeBSD from a 2nd SCSI disk. It installs > OK, but will not boot using either BootEasy or System Commander booters. > > The machine is an HP Kayak XU with two SCSI disks. > The first (C:) drive is 9GB and has three partitions on it: > 1) DOS - 500M > 2) Extended containing one virtual NTFS partition - 4GB > 3) Solaris 7 - 4.5GB > > I added a second (D:) drive of 4GB. I was able to select, partition, and > install FreeBSD on the D: drive. Then, I tried booting using the BootEasy > manager that comes with FreeBSD. It could see the FreeBSD installation, > but when I selected it, it would not boot. It complained that there was > no boot record. I reinstalled, making sure to select "install standard > FreeBSD boot record", and make the FreeBSD partition active on the D: > drive (I dunno if this really did anything - but I suspect not). > Same error. > > I thought this should work just fine, but maybe BootEasy has a problem > in 3.2, So I tried installing the latest System Commander Deluxe (v 4.031). > I can boot either NT or Solaris 7 on drive C: just fine. However, when I > try to select FreeBSD from System Commander, it complains that "The > operating system appears to have a defective boot record...". If I > "ignore" the error, the system hangs. > > I've looked in the tutorials, FAQs, and the past few months "questions" > archive but no luck. There's plenty of information about installing > FreeBSD among other OSes on drive C:, but nothing about installing it > and troubleshooting boot problems from drive D:. Can this be done? How? > > Thanks for any help. > - Mike > -- This is how I've done it with two SCSI disks on a NCR-810 controller: Solaris and Linux on "C", FreeBSD (and Linux Swap) on "D". I couldn't get FreeBSD running until I installed the boot loader on both drives. You can install it with the normal FreeBSD install on "D" (as you've already done) and through "bootinst.exe" (which is in the tools directory on the first CDROM) on "C". This is a DOS utility. When you boot after this, you will see, if all goes well: F1 DOS F2 ??? (don't think FBSD will recognize it) F3 Linux Swap (well, thus on my PC for Solaris!) F5 Drive1 This doesn't look nice maybe, but it works! F1 boots DOS, Windows, NT, whatever, F3 Solaris. By hitting F5 you get the boot menu from the second drive, which should probably have: F1: FreeBSD F5: Drive0 F1 will now give you FBSD at last :-) Hope this works for you as well... Marc -- Marc Schneiders marc@venster.nl marc@oldserver.demon.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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