From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 16 11:59:37 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B362816A534 for ; Fri, 16 Jan 2004 11:59:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail5.speakeasy.net (mail5.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61E4D43D1F for ; Fri, 16 Jan 2004 11:59:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 7791 invoked from network); 16 Jan 2004 19:59:35 -0000 Received: from dsl027-160-063.atl1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) encrypted SMTP for ; 16 Jan 2004 19:59:35 -0000 Received: from 10.50.40.206 (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i0GJxMM6088588; Fri, 16 Jan 2004 14:59:31 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) From: John Baldwin To: Juan Rodriguez Hervella , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 14:54:00 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <200401161052.32551.jfrherve@ing.uc3m.es> In-Reply-To: <200401161052.32551.jfrherve@ing.uc3m.es> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200401161454.00415.jhb@FreeBSD.org> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) Subject: Re: I can not boot my FreeBSD-5.2 partition, please help X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 19:59:37 -0000 On Friday 16 January 2004 04:52 am, Juan Rodriguez Hervella wrote: > Hello, > > I've got a 40 GBytes hard disk on an old Pentium MMX 266 MHz. > The first time I plugged it into the motherboard my BIOS didn't recognize > the drive, but fortunately there is a jumper that reduces the size of the > disk to 32 GBytes, and that's enough for my BIOS at this moment. > > So I've got something like this: > > 10 GBytes for Windows 2000 > 10 GBytes for Linux > 10 GBytes for FreeBSD-5.2 > > The big problem is that the FreeBSD boot manager that I've > got installed on my MBR is only able to boot the Windows partition. > > So, for booting Linux I've got a 1.44 booting disk. How can I do the same > for booting the FreeBSD-5.2 partition ? Do I have other posibilities ? > Any help will be kindly appreciated, but not tell me "buy another hard > disk...buy another puter.....". I love my puter, ok ? (^--^) You need to enable packet mode in boot0 for it to work. It should have done this automatically during install. Try booting into the installer and using the disc2 live filesystem CD in the fixit menu. You can then use boot0cfg off of the CD to try to see if packet mode is enabled. If it's not, enable it and see if it works for Linux and BSD. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org