From owner-freebsd-bugs Sat Jun 17 15:41:26 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id PAA08536 for bugs-outgoing; Sat, 17 Jun 1995 15:41:26 -0700 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id PAA08526 for ; Sat, 17 Jun 1995 15:41:25 -0700 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA16034; Sat, 17 Jun 95 16:34:34 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9506172234.AA16034@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: 2.05R panics on boot To: hlew@genome.Stanford.EDU (Howard Lew) Date: Sat, 17 Jun 95 16:34:33 MDT Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Howard Lew" at Jun 16, 95 11:47:29 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: bugs-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > If I install the boot manager after booting up DOS from hard drive C, the > boot manager comes up after the Ontrack DM, but when I choose the FreeBSD > partition (wd1), OS-BS just hangs the system. But if I choose the MSDOS > partition, it doesn't crash. This is the correct installation. > If I install OS-BS after booting from a DOS floppy, OS-BS shows the > OS menu before it gets to the Ontrack DM. If I choose FreeBSD, it > comes up fine (perfecto!) But if I choose MSDOS, the system says: > Missing Operating System. :-( This is messed; you have overwritten part of the DM. > I have also toggled around the writing of the active partion flag on > bootup with no luck either. This is not relevent to the problem, so you don't need to play with it. > As for setting the ID in OS-BS... Do I change the value (I think it was > 50 something) to a DOS value? And should I do this after booting from > a DOS floppy? OK. You can *probably* do the following: 1) Do the correct installion of DM. 2) Install OS-BS after booting from the hard drive. Now installing FreeBSD should cause the FreeBSD to see the DM and write its partition entry into the offset partition. If it doesn't work, you need to hit up Bruce (or whoever currently owns that code). Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.