From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 8 18:28:23 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id SAA14007 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 8 Jul 1995 18:28:23 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA13987 ; Sat, 8 Jul 1995 18:28:18 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id LAA05599; Sun, 9 Jul 1995 11:06:40 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199507090136.LAA05599@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: booteasy broken??? (no) To: hlew@genome.Stanford.EDU (Howard Lew) Date: Sun, 9 Jul 1995 11:06:40 +0930 (CST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org, bugs@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Howard Lew" at Jul 7, 95 02:07:25 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1606 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Howard Lew stands accused of saying: > Current 2.0.5-6/22 SNAP setup: 486 DX4-100, 12 MB RAM, 1.2Gig (wd0), > 540 MB (wd1), 130 MB (wd2) > > 1.2Gig - master (all freebsd with swap), 540 MB - slave (all DOS) > 130 MB - master on second ide port (all DOS) > > With 2.0.5-950622-SNAP, I can boot up FreeBSD from the 1.2Gig, but > booteasy bootmanager can not boot up DOS from the 540 MB. It > always stops with the Non-System Disk Error. If I wanted to boot up the > old 4-22 SNAP release from the 540 MB, that works. But I can't boot up DOS. You can't boot DOS from the second disk without modifying the DOS bootrecord. > Now I'm stumped. Is booteasy broken when it comes to booting a totally > new OS that isn't on the first drive. No, it's a DOS limitation. > Any suggestions? I have not tried creating a DOS partition on the 1.2 > Gig because I wanted to give it all to FreeBSD. Or is that the only > alternative? Is the Linux LILO any better? Nope; if you want to use DOS, you either slap a small partition on the first drive, or wander through the DOS bootrecord looking for 0x80, and and change them (one at a time 8) to 0x81. (BIOS disk numbers...) > Thanks in advance for any help. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[