From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 22 21:13:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA21423 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 21:13:42 -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 VAA21417 for ; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 21:13:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA27467; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 21:12:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 21:12:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Plamen Petkov cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Active partition problem - bootin in FreeBSD set it to "non-bootable" In-Reply-To: <35DBEE31.3DA11EC7@techno-link.com> 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 Okay, I know what the problem is now. > Then....I bootinst the boot.bin from 2.2.2-R CDROM on the Prim. Master && > Slave!!! disks (the original situation was with booteasy installed on the > MASTER ONLY) > > At this moment: > > (re)boot > booteasy menu > Press F5 - FreeBSD -> go to booteasy menu from Slave Disk > label: > Press F1- FreeBSD - excpecting "Boot:" promt > NO Boot: prompt, instead booteasy menu just redisplayed Okay, this means that something is wrong with the disk geometry. booteasy can't seem to figure out what's going on, so it just loops. I'd sugest finding a different boot manager, like OS-BS, with some more intelligence. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message