From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 27 17:11:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA03073 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 17:11:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from www.internet.walkabout.org (server1.internet.walkabout.org [205.132.52.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA03011 for ; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 17:11:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from amason@lakeshore.net) Received: from dialup.11.t-1000.oceana.net [205.132.52.144] by www.lakeshore.net with smtp id HSGNVSAO; Fri, 28 Aug 98 00:10:05 GMT (PowerWeb version 4.02r9) Message-ID: <35E5F5D1.46AD6B63@lakeshore.net> Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 00:12:01 +0000 From: Andrew Mason X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.32 i586) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mlduke@concentric.net CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot Manager References: <35E5E63E.53AB@concentric.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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