From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 9 19:43:09 2004 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 CC6E116A4CE for ; Thu, 9 Sep 2004 19:43:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from redtick.homeunix.com (adsl-67-66-94-241.dsl.okcyok.swbell.net [67.66.94.241]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7572143D1F for ; Thu, 9 Sep 2004 19:43:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from boxend@redtick.homeunix.com) Received: from redtick.homeunix.com (localhost.homeunix.com [127.0.0.1]) i89Jh5TW073512; Thu, 9 Sep 2004 14:43:05 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from boxend@redtick.homeunix.com) Received: (from boxend@localhost) by redtick.homeunix.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i89Jh4LX073511; Thu, 9 Sep 2004 14:43:04 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from boxend) Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 14:43:04 -0500 From: Mark To: fbsd_user Message-ID: <20040909194304.GA73478@redtick.homeunix.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.3-beta3 boot manger show stopper problem 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: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 19:43:09 -0000 On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 02:58:02PM -0400, fbsd_user wrote: > MS/Windows98 is first partition with 30% of 10 gig IDE hard > drive. This booted and worked as expected. Downloaded 5.3-beta3 > miniinstall.iso using my Freebsd server box, ran md5 and verified > correct hash with checksum.md5 file. Burned to cdrom and installed > 5.3 as second system on MS/Windows98 box with Freebsd default boot > manager. Freebsd install went fine. On first reboot tried to load > MS/Windows98. After F1 key win98 boot just hung there doing nothing. > Did pc reset and boot started again, this time selected F3 key for > 5.3 boot which just hung there doing nothing. > > Now hard drive is unusable. PC boot using MS/Windows98 floppy to get > to native DOS prompt and ran fdisk which shows win98 and freebsd > allocated as expected. > This also happened with 5.3-beta1 and had to DOS fdisk HD to single > partition and format c: before was able to reinstall win98 from > cdrom. fdisk /mbr did not help. > > Just to test equipment I then installed 4.10 as second system with > default Freebsd boot manager and every thing worked as expected. > > 5.3 install from downloaded iso image has show stopper problem using > default boot manger. > > Anybody reading this post from the 5.3 release build team have any > ideas on how to recover both systems on HD without blanking out HD > like before? > I had something like this happen a few times from my mistakes and found that gag bootloader will install and boot or "recover" both os.