From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 4 10:36:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tomts14-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts14.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF0AD37B401 for ; Sat, 4 Aug 2001 10:36:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joncheng2000@yahoo.com) Received: from joncheng ([64.229.64.222]) by tomts14-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.16 201-229-121-116-20010115) with SMTP id <20010804173628.FMY20283.tomts14-srv.bellnexxia.net@joncheng>; Sat, 4 Aug 2001 13:36:28 -0400 Message-ID: <00ff01c11d0d$4a4aa1f0$0200a8c0@joncheng> From: "Jon Cheng" To: "Mark Ibell" , References: <000b01c11cc1$5dd94330$0200a8c0@joncheng> <002101c11cc0$a1080340$0101a8c0@evileye> Subject: Re: how to add a slice to Boot Easy boot manager Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 13:45:45 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.3018.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.3018.1300 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 Actually, here is the fdisk output, sorry about posting the boot0cfg output. I still don't know why it is not adding the "DOS" slice. any help would be appreciated, thanks -Jon libretto# fdisk ad0 ******* Working on device /dev/ad0 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=789 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=789 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 63, size 5124672 (2502 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1; end: cyl 318/ sector 63/ head 254 The data for partition 2 is: sysid 15,(Extended DOS, LBA) start 5124735, size 7405965 (3616 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 319/ sector 1/ head 0; end: cyl 779/ sector 63/ head 254 The data for partition 3 is: The data for partition 4 is: libretto# ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Ibell" To: "Jon Cheng" ; Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 4:36 AM Subject: Re: how to add a slice to Boot Easy boot manager > Boot Easy should show up all "primary" partitions by default. You could try > reinstalling Boot Easy with a command like 'boot0cfg -Bv ad0'. Post the > output of 'fdisk ad0' if you're still at a loss? > > Cheers, > Mark > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jon Cheng" > To: > Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 8:42 PM > Subject: Re: how to add a slice to Boot Easy boot manager > > > > Hi, > > Right now my boot manager only shows one slice, how do I make it give me > > choice F2, where my win98 is? > > I partitioned my 6 gig into two 3 gig partitions. > > > > I tried fiddling with boot0cfg but I don't know how it works. > > > > thanks for your help, > > -Jon > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message