From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Nov 30 17:34:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4438637B400 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 17:34:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (doconnor@cain [203.38.152.97]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA05815 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 12:04:37 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 12:04:37 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Oldish Laptop and boot0 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I upgraded a laptop at work which was running 2.2.6 (oh the pain) to 4.2 and had a few problems.. The floppy drive was stuffed and it's too old to be able to boot off the CDROM drive so I transfered the HD to another laptop (P233 Sharp PC-M110) and did the install on that and it seemed fine (as in boot0 could select which OS to boot from - it dual boots Windows). When I transfered the drive back to the P100 laptop boot0 just hung - fortunatly I found that the floppy drive works well enough to load boot1 (I think it's boot1 - it loads the forth loader anyway), and from that I could boot to the HD.. I fiddled with lots of options in boot0cfg but with no luck. I tried installing the boot0 which just boots FreeBSD instead of giving you a choice and found that lo and behold it works.. Unfortunatly I need it to dual boot, so I dug out and old copy of os-bs and installed that and it works fine (finally). Is there any information I can provide which would allow boot0 to be fixed? OS-BS is OK but it doesn't remember what you booted last which is minorly irritating.. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message