From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 18 19:18:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hyperreal.org (taz.hyperreal.org [209.133.83.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7219B14E17 for ; Fri, 18 Jun 1999 19:18:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@hyperreal.org) Received: (qmail 11150 invoked by uid 12); 19 Jun 1999 02:18:33 -0000 Message-ID: <19990619021833.11149.qmail@hyperreal.org> From: mike@hyperreal.org Subject: Re: boot manager acting strangely In-Reply-To: from Doug White at "Jun 18, 1999 04:53:11 pm" To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu (Doug White) Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 19:18:33 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL51 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug White wrote: > > Drive 0 > > slice 1 = 128 MB FAT partition w/MS-DOS 6.22 > > slice 2 = 1.6 GB FreeBSD (system) > > > > Drive 1 > > slice 1 = 1.7 GB FreeBSD (not mounted yet) > > Try running fdisk /mbr against this drive to clear the MBRs. How do you run fdisk /mbr on a different drive? > Also check your active partition bit. Drive 0 Slice 2 is active. Drive 1 Slice 1 is active. DOS's fdisk doesn't let you unset an active partition, and won't let you set one on Drive 1. FreeBSD fdisk will only let you set a partition # 1,2,3 or 4 active. There's only one partition on the drive, it's already active, and I can't figure out how to unset it. Result of running DOS's fdisk /mbr: no more OS chooser menu; boots straight to FreeBSD partition (wd0s2) /stand/sysinstall's implementation of fdisk and the boot loader installer is downright fucked for post-install configurations, and the help screens are no help. No matter how I go about it, it always keeps throwing me back into the fdisk screen. If someone is in charge of this part of /sysinstall, contact me (ICQ 31695219 if I'm on) and we'll walk through all the problems together; they're too much to try to list here. Anyway, I am able to get the OS chooser portion of the boot loader installed again via a certain method, but I am right back where I started: F1 DOS = beep F2 FreeBSD = beep F5 Drive 0 = next menu F1 DOS = boot to DOS (wd0s1) F2 FreeBSD = boot to FreeBSD (wd0s2) F5 Drive 1 = mysterious prompt ".....Boot 2>." and hang Bloody hell. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message