Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 07:38:14 +0100 From: Abercromby James TSgt 31CS/SCBBMA <James.Abercromby@aviano.af.mil> To: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>, "'freebsd-newbies@Freebsd.org'" <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Installation Woes Message-ID: <78944D1EBF2BD3119DBF0008C75DEDFF0301B4@avo-exch-l3.aviano.af.mil>
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Peter,
Went home last night and physically changed over my harddrive configuration
-Win98 is on a Samsung 1.2Gig drive as the primary slave.
-FreeBSD 3.4 is on a MaXtor 17.2gig drive as primary master.
Then I set my bios up to auto detect the drives, cool.
Then installed Win98 on the Samsung 1.2 gig.-No problems.
Then went and installed FreeBSD 3.4 (over and over and over)
1- Fdisk for wd0 leave it alone press Q
-- Select the BootMGR for wd0
2- Fdisk for wd1-Create 2 slices for FreeBSD
wd1s1-8000M/wd1s2-8400M
-- Select the BootMGR also for wd1 (is this what I am doing wrong?)
- Disk Labeler
- wd0 leave alone
- wd1s1 - Accept the default
- wd1s2 - creat one big label for the whole thing /store
Then continue on-it creates the filesystems fine and finishes
, but then when it gos to the next step in the install it
SIG11s on me and you have no choice but to reboot and start all over.
Also, check this out one time right after finishing up writing the
filesystems when it gos to the next step in the install
it was trying to access the cdrom and it flaked out on me
saying it couldn't find anything. But... when the kernel loaded
I know it found it no problem. Also, the cd works find in windows
and Slackware so....?
The CDROM is a Kenwood 40X ide/atapi put by some low brow company
called Hi-VAL.
I other question, this Maxtor 17.2 gig drive had this goofy setup
disk, etc. I tried to use it but it seemed like a waste of time.
Think it could have done something strange to it. Should I run
a low level format on it?
So after trying a million different variations of the above fdisk/label
wise.
I just gave up and rebooted and the booteasy menu came up I selected dos,
and
lo and behold win98 boots fine. Tried to select Disk 1 by pressing F5 and
then I get FreeBSD select F1 FreeBSD select F2.
If I select F1 or F2 I get
- the little / that spins around but it just hangs.
- or invalid partition.
From: Peter Schwenk [mailto:schwenk@math.udel.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 3:06 PM
To: Abercromby James SSgt 31CS/SCBBMA
Subject: Re: Dual Booting Win98 and FreeBSD 2 sep. HDs-Continued
I'm assuming you've already installed Windows and FreeBSD. The best order
to
install Windows with any other OS is: Windows first, everything else
afterward. The Windows install takes liberties with the Master Boot Record.
If FreeBSD is installed after Windows, then Booteasy (the standard boot
manager) will work properly. That is, if you chose to install Booteasy
(into
the MBR of the first disk) during the install.
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