From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 10 11: 0:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from maila.telia.com (maila.telia.com [194.22.194.231]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2A1637B403 for ; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 11:00:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pry@crosswinds.net) Received: from sfgfg (h7n1fls31o895.telia.com [213.66.108.7]) by maila.telia.com (8.11.2/8.11.0) with SMTP id f7AI0DK07213; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 20:00:17 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <3B742F10.35A7@crosswinds.net> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 19:59:28 +0100 From: Andreas Ziethén X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Gary W. Swearingen" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem booting into FreeBSD References: <3B738CFA.6848@crosswinds.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I can't address what you've tried as I'm unfamiliar with that software. > (I'm supprised that the DDO for the second disk is on the first disk.) > > The FreeBSD distribution comes with floppies/fixit.flp which you can > put on a floppy (byte-by-byte copy however you do that; rawwrite?) > and then boot off. At the prompt you enter the system you want to > reboot off; the prompt should give you a sufficient clue and, IIRC, > there's a "help" or "?" command (or consult the handbook first). Ok, I'll try that, hopefully it will be easier than the workaroundd I foundm which was to use fdisk to change the active partition every time I wanted to switch OS. Thanks. /Andreas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message