Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 12:28:13 +0200 From: "Barkin T. Alar" <satinalma@tepeyp.com.tr> To: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Booting FreeBSD 4.1 pasivates the active partition Message-ID: <003901c0aadf$46661ce0$0864a8c0@tepeyp.com.tr>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] 1. Summary : I 'm having some kind of reboot problem like after a FreeBSD boot it passivates the Primary DOS partition on Pri-IDE Master Drive so that i cannot boot up the next time. I never had such a problem on the same state before. The story: I have 2 harddisks, 20GB Quantum on Pri-IDE Master and 3.2GB Quantum on Sec-IDE Master. I also have a 32X Pioneer CD-Rom Drive attached on Sec-IDE Slave. The Pri-IDE Slave is free. The 20GB Harddisk is partitioned into 3 on a Win98 system with approx. 10GB C: , 6GB D:, and 4GB E: drives. The 3.2GB Harddisk is a complete FreeBSD 4.1 system with some MBs of Swap (for ex. 256MB) and the rest is a file system ( / ). The procedure i follow on installing both OS : First i install the Win98 OS on to C: and then i boot up from my FreeBSD 4.1 CD and make the FreeBSD 4.1 OS install. After the FreeBSD installation I reboot to run FreeBSD and the boot manager respectively displays F1 Windows F5 Drive 1 so that i hit F5 and F1 FreeBSD F5 Drive 0 and then i hit F1 this time and boot up the FreeBSD system. Everything seems to be working fine now until i shutdown and/or reboot to run either Windows 98 or FreeBSD 4.1. And here comes the problem : It cannot find the active partition resulting with a disk boot failure. This makes me fdisk with a Win98 or FreeBSD boot disk and reactivate the C: drive and restart. This time it boots from Win98 but if i choose to boot from FreeBSD then the same problem occurs. Its like booting the FreeBSD pasivates the C: . Any comments? 2. An additional question i would like to ask since i have stated the Harddisk details above. I have no problem on mounting C: with the command mount_msdos /dev/wd0s1 /mnt but i don't know how to mount DOS (actually Windows 98 FAT32) drives D: and E: . What is the procedure i should follow ? Thanks very much. Barkin Alar pinnace@superonline.com satinalma@tepeyp.com.tr [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-9" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2614.3500" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV> <DIV>1.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Summary :</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I 'm having some kind of reboot problem like after a FreeBSD boot it passivates the Primary DOS partition on Pri-IDE Master Drive so that i cannot boot up the next time. I never had such a problem on the same state before. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>The story:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I have 2 harddisks, 20GB Quantum on Pri-IDE Master and 3.2GB Quantum on Sec-IDE Master. I also have a 32X Pioneer CD-Rom Drive attached on Sec-IDE Slave. The Pri-IDE Slave is free.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>The 20GB Harddisk is partitioned into 3 on a Win98 system with approx. 10GB C: , 6GB D:, and 4GB E: drives.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>The 3.2GB Harddisk is a complete FreeBSD 4.1 system with some MBs of Swap (for ex. 256MB) and the rest is a file system ( / ).</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>The procedure i follow on installing both OS :</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>First i install the Win98 OS on to C: and then i boot up from my FreeBSD 4.1 CD and make the FreeBSD 4.1 OS install. After the FreeBSD installation I reboot to run FreeBSD and the boot manager respectively displays </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>F1 Windows </DIV> <DIV>F5 Drive 1 </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>so that i hit F5 and </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>F1 FreeBSD</DIV> <DIV>F5 Drive 0</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>and then i hit F1 this time and boot up the FreeBSD system. Everything seems to be working fine now until i shutdown and/or reboot to run either Windows 98 or FreeBSD 4.1.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <DIV>And here comes the problem :</DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>It cannot find the active partition resulting with a disk boot failure. This makes me fdisk with a Win98 or FreeBSD boot disk and reactivate the C: drive and restart. This time it boots from Win98 but if i choose to boot from FreeBSD then the same problem occurs. Its like booting the FreeBSD pasivates the C: .</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Any comments?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>2.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>An additional question i would like to ask since i have stated the Harddisk details above. I have no problem on mounting C: with the command</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>mount_msdos /dev/wd0s1 /mnt</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>but i don't know how to mount DOS (actually Windows 98 FAT32) drives D: and E: . What is the procedure i should follow ?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Thanks very much.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Barkin Alar</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><A href="mailto:pinnace@superonline.com">pinnace@superonline.com</A></DIV> <DIV><A href="mailto:satinalma@tepeyp.com.tr">satinalma@tepeyp.com.tr</A></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>
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