From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 29 22:27:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp1.columbus.rr.com (clmboh1-smtp1.columbus.rr.com [65.24.0.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43C5537B479 for ; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 22:27:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from dhcp246193.columbus.rr.com (dhcp246193.columbus.rr.com [204.210.246.193]) by clmboh1-smtp1.columbus.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA10563 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 01:24:18 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 01:28:16 -0500 (EST) From: "Ramon G. Ricca" X-Sender: rricca@franny.salinger.net To: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: Help with BootEasy... In-Reply-To: <20001029210522.B75251@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, Crist J . Clark wrote: > On Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 06:01:26PM -0500, Ramon G. Ricca wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm relatively new to freebsd and have somehow hosed windows on my > > first partition. When everything worked I got this message at startup: > > > > F1 Windows > > F2 FreeBSD > > F3 FreeBSD > > > > However, it was sort of annoying because the second freebsd partition is > > the location of my /home directory (not bootable). > > OK, let's get the terminology straight. On your third slice (third > MS-DOS partition), you have one or more FreeBSD partitions, including > /home, but none are bootable. Well, fdisk /dev/ad0 gives me: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 11,(DOS or Windows 95 with 32 bit FAT) start 63, size 6152832 (3004 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1; end: cyl 382/ sector 63/ head 254 The data for partition 2 is: sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 6152895, size 4289355 (2094 Meg), flag 80 (active) The data for partition 2 is: sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 6152895, size 4289355 (2094 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 383/ sector 1/ head 0; end: cyl 649/ sector 63/ head 254 The data for partition 3 is: sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 10442250, size 2249100 (1098 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 650/ sector 1/ head 0; end: cyl 789/ sector 63/ head 254 The data for partition 4 is: I'm not sure whice slice is windows exactly (fdisk showed the first to be windows). > > > So I used boot0cfg to > > mask off the third slice (-m 0x3) and found that it got rid of the third > > slice, except when I try to boot into windows, when I get something like > > the following: > > > > F1 Windows > > F2 FreeBSD > > F3 Disk0 > > So after you get the first menu above, you then hit 'F1,' which is > supposed to have Windows, but instead you get the second menu show > here? Not good. > yes to the above statement. > > The computer beeps and doesn't boot the first slice, but will boot the > > second (FreeBSD). > > Are you saying that you now hit 'F1' again, but it beeps and boots > FreeBSD anyway? Did everything work before you did the boot0cfg? Sorry, I wasn't clear on this. When I hit 'F1' to boot windows it beeps and gives me the second menu and doesn't boot anything. However, if I press 'F2' on either one of the menus that I listed, it will boot freebsd. The whole thing worked originally, but the only things that I changed from the original settings were the masks (I experimented with boot0cfg -m). I did install the new boot0 update (the errata on 4.1 suggested this). > -- > Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu > Thanks for any help... Ramon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message