From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 17 13:43:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA23808 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 13:43:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA23658 for ; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 13:42:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA03850; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 13:41:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 13:41:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Atipa cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help! BootEasy is retarded! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Atipa wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > Am am finding a _most_ annoying problem w/ BootEasy. I have 2 disks (both > 4.3GB IDE), w. Win98 (no FAT32; only fat16) on the first & FreeBSD on the > 2nd. The FreeBSD disk is _not_ using compatibility slice (although i did > try just to make sure...), and has its / as the first slice (way below > 1024 cylinders I'm sure). > > Anyhow, after I install both OSes, all is happy. BootEasy comes up, and > offers 2 choices, F1 for disk1 (win98) & F5 for disk2 (BSD). If I select > F5 for BSD, it boots no problem and everything works. However, the P.O.S. > switches the active partition from the 1st partition on disk one to the > BSD partition on disk 2! ARGH! > If I use FDISK (DOS's or BSD's) and switch the active partition back to > where it should be (disk1, par 1), it all works again. > > I think the problem may be that when I tried to use the compatibility > slice (a few installs back), I had BootMgr installed on _both_ disks > (since the blurb on sysinstall mentions this may be right). Could that be > blowing things up? How can I uninstall? fdisk /mbr only works on the > primary partition. You should have installed FreeBSD in compatibility mode. Windows probably hates you for it. Also try OS-BS instead of Booteasy - it is perhaps the world's most braindead program. > I remeber seeing somewhere: > # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rwd1 bs=1 count=512 > or something like that, but I don't want to risk it without knowing for > sure. That will erase your disklabel, or partition table, whatever's at the front of wd1. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message