Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 19:33:59 -0400 (EDT) From: pradesh.chanderpaul@iname.com To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Problem with booteasy after reboot Message-ID: <199809162333.TAA21142@web01.iname.net>
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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.
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