Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 13:50:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson <ANDRSN@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Boot Manager Problem Message-ID: <01I4P4Q6K2KI005SCF@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU>
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I have gotten into a little trouble with my OS/2 boot manager and I hope someone here can tell me what to do. Originally DOS/Win3.1 and FreeBSD 2.0.5R were running on a 515 MB SCSI drive with BootEasy installed. I added a second SCSI hard drive and put a 300 MB dos partition on it and gave 2.1R (now 2.1-STABLE) the balance, 1.7 Gb or something like that. During this process I left BootEasy alone and installed OS/2's boot manager; BootEasy added the OS/2 boot manager to its list of options and also added an F5 for the second hard drive. But I didn't put BootEasy on the second hard drive. Then I deleted the DOS/Win3.1 partition on the first hard drive, created two primary partitions there, and put that awful monster Win95 on the first one, with the second hard drive disconnected. Now BootEasy is apparently gone and I've reactivated OS/2's boot manager, which sees everything on the first drive and the DOS partition on the second drive, but not the FreeBSD 2.1S partition. So to boot the 2.1S I have to select the 2.0.5 installation on the first drive and type sd(1,a)/kernel. OS/2's fdisk shows the DOS partition on the second drive as bootable (which it's not, but that's okay) and lists the FreeBSD partition but won't let me give it a name or add it to the boot manager list. So somewhere the information on where it is got lost, and I don't know what to do to reestablish it. Annelise
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