From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 24 09:20:56 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31ACE16A4B3 for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 09:20:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from stork.mail.pas.earthlink.net (stork.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.188]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08B4643FDF for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 09:20:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from algould@datawok.com) Received: from 22-15.lctv-b4.cablelynx.com ([24.204.22.15] helo=yoda.datawok.com) by stork.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1A2CNg-0006Vb-00; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 09:20:44 -0700 From: "Andrew L. Gould" To: Sergey "DoubleF" Zaharchenko , "radu.florin" Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 16:20:42 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <20030924200918.41abc329.doublef@tele-kom.ru> In-Reply-To: <20030924200918.41abc329.doublef@tele-kom.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200309241620.42666.algould@datawok.com> X-ELNK-Trace: ee791d459e3d6817d780f4a490ca69564776905774d2ac4b5c6c90e03f415b756b24bc2e655bb819350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disk geometry X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 16:20:56 -0000 On Wednesday 24 September 2003 03:09 pm, Sergey "DoubleF" Zaharchenko wrote: > On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 17:11:49 +0200 "radu.florin" probably wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm testing the coexistence of Win95, Linux Slackware and Free BSD 5.1 > > on a single physical disk PC ( P133, 16Mo RAM, 3 GO dd). > > Just the time to see if I can boot to the OS I want to use. > > Then to install on a PC with 384 Mo RAM a 40 Go dd > > On the P133 I'm testing, all is working fine with Win and Slack. > > Slack boot lets me go to Win or Linux without any problem. > > I installed also a minimal FreeBSD in good conditions. > > But I have no access at it... > > Slack boot don't see it. > > And if I accept-when installing Free BSD - one of his boots (MBR or SB) > > I can't have no Win, no Slack, neither FreeBSD. It displays the usual > > choice F1, F2... but no one works (just screaming). > > It seems to be a dd geometry problem. > > No. It is the BIOS that seems to be the problem. It might be unable to > do packet interface which is by default required by BootEasy. You could > try booting from a FreeBSD floppy and running > > #boot0cfg -o nopacket /dev/ad0BUGS > > (replace ad0 with the harddrive). man 8 boot0cfg for details. It says: > > man> Use of the `packet' option may cause `boot0' to fail, depending on > the man> nature of BIOS support. > > HTH I may be way off here, but were the bootable partitions for each operating set as bootable in the partitioning section of the installation procedures? Yesterday, I reinstalled Win2K on a portion of the 1st hard drive of my desktop. (FreeBSD is on the 2nd hard drive.) I then executed /stand/sysinstall in FreeBSD to mark the Win2K partition as bootable and load the FreeBSD boot loader into the MBR. Later, I installed NetBSD on the last part of the 1st hard drive, leaving the MBR alone during NetBSD installation. When I rebooted, the FreeBSD boot loader showed the partitions for each operating system; but would only boot Win2K and FreeBSD. I had to go back to /stand/sysinstall in FreeBSD to mark the NetBSD partition as bootable. Now I can boot all 3 operating systems (one at a time, of course!) . Best of luck, Andrew Gould