From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 5 17:58:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA08869 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 17:58:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tera.com (tera.tera.com [207.108.223.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA08802 for ; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 17:57:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by tera.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with UUCP id RAA17201; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 17:57:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.8.5/8.7.3) id RAA19801; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 17:49:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Kline Message-Id: <199804060049.RAA19801@tao.thought.org> Subject: Re: dual booting on the IWILL P55XUB In-Reply-To: <980405181633.ZM3811@execpc.com> from Frank Pawlak at "Apr 5, 98 06:16:33 pm" To: fpawlak@execpc.com (Frank Pawlak) Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1998 17:49:50 -0700 (PDT) Cc: kline@thought.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, bleach@bellsouth.net Organization: <> thought.org: public access uNix in service... <> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG According to Frank Pawlak: > On Apr 3, 10:44am, Gary Kline wrote: > > Subject: dual booting on the IWILL P55XUB > > > > After last night, I'm beginning to think that to get > > both Debian and FreeBSD booting _without changing the > > Adaptec BIOS settings on my IWILL P55XUB_ is going to be > > impossible. > > > > Gary, > > Try this as root using a DOS boot disk with fdisk on it. Boot from the DOS > disk and run fdisk /MBR. This will clear the MBR of LILO. Then try to install > booteasy from the CDROM. Boot Linux from the boot floppy and install LILO on > the Linux root partition and make the Linux root partition bootable. This > should make the Linux partition visable to boot easy. > > Will have a closer look at this later. > Hi Folks, Around noon I trashed LILO (after getting to the `LIL-' stage). Then an ex-doshead-freebsd-fellow stopped over to help me get booteasy working. Yeah, we did exactly what you were thinking of, Frank: `fdisk \MBR' and add booteasy. Wound up hosing my system all the more. ((Suggest that BootEasy be somewhere in /usr/src or /usr/bin, guys. *Hint, hint.* It was a bear to find and install and it evidently was done incorrecly.)) The problem(s), whatever they were, made me realize that life is too short. At this writing, 2.2.5 is reinstalling on all 3 SCSI drives. So my 6x86 box with ~10G of disk is going to be a hell of a machine. This fall I'm going to add drives to _this_ P90 box. Then I'll be looking to copy whoever has an all-SCSI system and FBSD and Debian. cheers! gary > > -- Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public service uNix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message