Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 00:12:31 -0500 From: "Aaron Kirk" <amkirk@eos.ncsu.edu> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Problem getting FreeBSD to boot on second large harddrive Message-ID: <000b01bf2f28$0602b020$dda0d6d1@cartman>
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I recently installed a new second drive into my computer. It's a 20 gig Maxtor drive. I have an extended partition on it that takes up 15 gigs and 5 gigs for FreeBSD. My first hard drive just has Win98 on it. I can't get the boot manager to boot my FreeBSD partition correctly. This is the output from bootinst.exe for the second hard drive: +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ¦ ¦Partition¦Can ¦Boot¦ Beginning ¦ Ending ¦ Relative¦Number of¦ ¦N¦ Type ¦Boot¦Part¦Head Cyl Sect¦Head Cyl Sect¦ Sectors ¦ Sectors ¦ +-+---------+----+----+---------------+---------------+---------+---------¦ ¦1¦ ????? ¦ yes¦ no ¦ 0 ¦ 1 ¦ 1 ¦254 ¦1023 ¦ 63 ¦ 16065 ¦30732345 ¦ +-+---------+----+----+----+-----+----+----+-----+----+---------+---------¦ ¦2¦ 386bsd ¦ no ¦ no ¦255 ¦1023 ¦ 63 ¦254 ¦1023 ¦ 63 ¦30748410 ¦ 9124920 ¦ +-+---------+----+----+----+-----+----+----+-----+----+---------+---------¦ ¦3¦ empty ¦ no ¦ no ¦ 0 ¦ 0 ¦ 0 ¦ 0 ¦ 0 ¦ 0 ¦ 0 ¦ 0 ¦ +-+---------+----+----+----+-----+----+----+-----+----+---------+---------¦ ¦4¦ empty ¦ no ¦ no ¦ 0 ¦ 0 ¦ 0 ¦ 0 ¦ 0 ¦ 0 ¦ 0 ¦ 0 ¦ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Sorry for the distortion in the table above. Twice I've used the freeBSD fdisk utility to set the FreeBSD partition to boot. The first time when I ran bootinst to see what was going on, the extended partition was marked as "can boot" and "boot partition". The FreeBSD partition was set to no and no. The next time I used the FreeBSD fdisk utility, I set the FreeBSD partition to boot and used the W command. When I rebooted, I still couldn't boot to FreeBSD so I used bootinst again and the above is what I saw. How do I: 1) Unmarked the extended partition as "can boot". I tried using dos fdisk but it won't let you make a partition on a second hard drive as bootable, so I couldn't take the setting off either. 2) Set the FreeBSD partition to "can boot" and make it stay. Thanks in advance. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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