From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 17 14:12:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA02789 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 14:12:38 -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 OAA02574 for ; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 14:11:55 -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 OAA04243; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 14:11:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 14:11:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: pradesh.chanderpaul@iname.com cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with booteasy after reboot In-Reply-To: <199809162333.TAA21142@web01.iname.net> 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 pradesh.chanderpaul@iname.com wrote: > I know this one has come up time and time again, but > I cannot seem to make sense of it. > > My problem is simular to that related by Plamen Petkov > some weeks ago. > > I have two hard drives > - the first one 3.2 gig with LBA in bios only for win95 > Primary Master. Seagate IDE > - the second one 540M, for FreeBsd. Bios reports > as geometry 1120/16/59 on autodetect. When > booting off the install floppy, same geometry is > reported. Primary Slave. Quantum IDE > > I complete installation, install Booteasy on disk 0 and 1, and use the entire drive for disk 1 for FreeBsd. > > First issue! When I enter the FreeBsd fdisk during > installation, the disk 1 geometry is reported as different > as that given above. Any ideas?) Ignore it. The geometry is a lie anyway. > Second Issue, I can reboot and boot win95 ad infintum UNTIL I boot > FreeBsd. Next boot says:- Not found ... active partition .... This can > be fixed by booting dos on the floppy and resetting the active > partion. > I've tried installing OS-BS. It fails trying to wite to the disk ( FAT > or boot partition, I don't know). Boot partition, probably. Do you have virus protection turned on in BIOS setup? > Third issue. All that I've mentioned is all that I understand about > boot partitions and such. I therefore need help from someone that can > talk slowly. Check out the Handbook. www.freebsd.org/handbook 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