Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 00:12:01 +0000 From: Andrew Mason <amason@lakeshore.net> To: mlduke@concentric.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot Manager Message-ID: <35E5F5D1.46AD6B63@lakeshore.net> References: <35E5E63E.53AB@concentric.net>
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Have you tried setting your hard drive to LBA mode? FreeBSD won't boot if it exsists above the 1024th cylinder on the hard drive. /Andrew ML Duke wrote: > > Fully repartitioned a 3815M hard drive and installed > FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE with a good, error free install, > disk dedicated to FBSD > > wincrud et al running on disk zero, 514M. Half of the > Boot Manager works. F1 boots win, F5 just gives F5 again, > repeatedly. > > Read the docs, read the FAQ, tried everything: Deliberately > reinstalled win to wipe out the boot manager, then in DOS: > bootinst.exe boot.bin with success. > > Have done it the second way: boot install floppy, custom > installation, partition, write, MBR, also successul. Same > result. > > Made a fixit floppy: Did disklabel -B /dev/wd0s1 (wd0s1 correct) > which returns "Bad pack magic number (label is damaged, > or pack is unlabeled)". > > Any suggestions from anywhere would be greatly appreciated. > > $ms is in for a final and complete divorce when this box is > up and running. > > ML Duke > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- ******************************** Web:www.lakeshore.net/~amason/ Email: amason@lakeshore.net ******************************* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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