From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 14 21:31:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA14973 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 14 May 1996 21:31:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA14953 for ; Tue, 14 May 1996 21:31:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id VAA09166; Tue, 14 May 1996 21:34:26 -0700 Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 21:34:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Annelise Anderson cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot Manager Problem In-Reply-To: <01I4PHN8ZESI005UMX@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 14 May 1996, Annelise Anderson wrote: > > 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. Keep this along for kicks... > > 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. > > :What is the error OS/2 Fdisk gives you? My FreeBSD partition added > :without a hitch, but it's on a second IDE disk. My guess is that you > :either didn't install the FreeBSD partition in other systems compatibility > :mode, the geometry is wrong, or the system can't see to boot onto sd1 > :(which may be if the SCSI doesn't have boot ROMs). Being somewhat > :ignorant of SCSI I'm not sure of the last one. > > I doubt all three because it worked fine for a couple of weeks, with > the OS/2 boot manager knowing about everything. I am not sure about > installing in "other systems compatibility mode"--I've never seen this > on any install I've done. FreeBSD can read the dos partition. I think > I need to do something like installing a boot manager on the second > hard drive....actually I have no idea what to do. OS/2 Fdisk run from > the install disks doesn't give an error; I haven't tried running it from > the command prompt. Should I try that? You might, I don't think it's any different. When you fdisk'd the FreeBSD partition, it should have asked you if the sectors should be aligned for future operating systems or something like that. At least in more recent installers, after 2.0.5. I haven't experimented with the OS/2 Boot Manager that much so I'm not aware of it's limits. I wonder if you should try reinstalling it. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major