Date: Thu, 22 Jun 1995 13:59:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Howard Lew <hlew@genome.Stanford.EDU> To: Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu> Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 2.05R panics on boot Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950622125747.5737A-100000@marmite.Stanford.EDU> In-Reply-To: <9506182125.AA19481@cs.weber.edu>
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On Sun, 18 Jun 1995, Terry Lambert wrote: > What you need to do is: > > 1) Make sure DM is on the first drive [this is done] done > > 2) Boot the first drive under DOS to activate the DM INT 13 > redirector. done > > 3) Use the DOS installation to install OS-BS onto the first drive > as a replacement for the displace DOS MBR. The partition table > will exist in the OS-BS MBR instead of the DOS MBR. > done > *) At this point, you should be able to boot of the first drive into > the OS-BS menu and select "DOS", acusing the DOS to boot correctly. > Do not proceed past this point until this is the case. > done > 4) At this point you should be able to ask it to boot of the second > drive (assuming you have OS-BS installed correctly. This will > fail, but you should make sure that you can attempt to boot off > the second drive. > yes it fails. but done. > > Subsequent steps will [potentially] require the reinstallation of BSD. > If you are not prepared to do this, you should rely on booting with a > floppy. To make it more convenient, you can change the default device > in the floppy boot blocks, which will result in the floppy booting the > correct device. The method for doing this is well documented in the > hackers list archive on freefall.cdrom.com. This archive can also be > accessed via www at http://www.freebsd.org. > > 5) Install OS-BS on the second drive. This may or may not be > easy to accomplish. If the partition table on the second os-bs would not install on the second drive, so I had to use booteasy instead. > drive is a remnant of a DOS install, then this will be easy; > otherwise you will have to use the DOS command fdisk/mbr on > the second DOS drive. YOU MUST GIVE THE DOS DRIVE LETTER AS > A PARAMETER. In addition, the /mbr option is not available > in DOS revisions prior to 5.0. At this point you can install > OS-BS and reinstall BSD. > > Now when you boot, you will get an option to choose the DOS partition > or the second drive. Tho boot BSD, choose the second drive option in > the OS-BS menu. You will get another OS-BS menu (the DOS option in > this menus will not work). Choose the FreeBSD option, and it should > boot correctly. > The system starts up with the Ontrack DM dynamic overlay, and then goes into os-bs, and I am presented with a menu for DOS or FreeBSD. I choose FreeBSD, and I see the booteasy prompt for BSD or Disk 1. I choose BSD, but the system hangs. I also tried booting with booteasy installed on both drives. It still hangs after I choose BSD for the second drive. DOS boots okay though. I guess I'll have to boot from a modified boot.flp.
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