From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 16 16:35:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA09561 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 16:35:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pop01.globecomm.net (pop01.globecomm.net [206.253.129.185]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA09458 for ; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 16:34:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pradesh.chanderpaul@iname.com) From: pradesh.chanderpaul@iname.com Received: from web01.iname.net (web01.iname.net [165.251.4.11]) by pop01.globecomm.net (8.9.0/8.8.0) with ESMTP id TAA02877 for ; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 19:33:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by web01.iname.net (8.8.8/8.8.0) id TAA21142; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 19:33:59 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 19:33:59 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199809162333.TAA21142@web01.iname.net> Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Problem with booteasy after reboot Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I know this one has come up time and time again, but I cannot seem to make sense of it. My problem is simular to that related by Plamen Petkov some weeks ago. I have two hard drives - the first one 3.2 gig with LBA in bios only for win95 Primary Master. Seagate IDE - the second one 540M, for FreeBsd. Bios reports as geometry 1120/16/59 on autodetect. When booting off the install floppy, same geometry is reported. Primary Slave. Quantum IDE I complete installation, install Booteasy on disk 0 and 1, and use the entire drive for disk 1 for FreeBsd. First issue! When I enter the FreeBsd fdisk during installation, the disk 1 geometry is reported as different as that given above. Any ideas?) Second Issue, I can reboot and boot win95 ad infintum UNTIL I boot FreeBsd. Next boot says:- Not found ... active partition .... This can be fixed by booting dos on the floppy and resetting the active partion. I've tried installing OS-BS. It fails trying to wite to the disk ( FAT or boot partition, I don't know). Third issue. All that I've mentioned is all that I understand about boot partitions and such. I therefore need help from someone that can talk slowly. Thanking you in advance Pradesh Chanderpaul PS : I'll appreciate sincerely if you CC me as I am not able to get on the mailing list and my access to the list is limited. --------------------------------------------------- Get free personalized email at http://www.iname.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message