From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 20 18:14:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailout5.nyroc.rr.com (mailout5-0.nyroc.rr.com [24.92.226.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52FBF37B403 for ; Sat, 20 Oct 2001 18:14:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from there (roc-24-169-96-227.rochester.rr.com [24.169.96.227]) by mailout5.nyroc.rr.com (8.11.6/Road Runner 1.12) with SMTP id f9L1EPh20129 for ; Sat, 20 Oct 2001 21:14:26 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200110210114.f9L1EPh20129@mailout5.nyroc.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "Justin C. Sherrill" Reply-To: justin@shiningsilence.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Finding FreeBSD disk with boot menu Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001 21:23:51 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 I am having trouble with booting into FreeBSD. I have my primary IDE master drive booting Windows. There was no primary slave. The Freebsd disk was the secondary IDE master. My CDROM is SCSI. I added a primary IDE slave drive. My boot menu (booteasy) used to do a strange double selection thing, where it would ask twice what disk I wanted to boot from. (I assume this is because I accidentally installed it on both master drives.) Windows will boot OK. However, I get a "Previous disk failed.." message when I select FreeBSD, and have to book by using a fixit floppy and telling it "2:ad(2,a)/kernel". I'm assiming something in the boot process for my FreeBSD drive is screwy, but I can't identify it. I've tried a variety of things with fdisk. Anyone have suggestions for me? Please cc: them to justin@shiningsilence.com, as I'm not regularly following this list. Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message