Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 12:46:57 +0200 From: Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: problems with boot loader stage1 Message-ID: <20040926104657.GA29418@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at>
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Hi FreeBSD-Gurus!
[Please Cc: me]
Short Description: FreeBSD 4.10, installed on /dev/hde (linux lingo),
booting via lilo (on hda) -> hde goes to stage0 but stops there.
Longer:
Recently I have installed FreeBSD (4.10) for compiling TeXlive binaries
for i386-freebsd. I used some disk space on ad4/hde (bsd/linux lingo).
linux fdisk shows:
/dev/hde1 1 20887 167774796 83 Linux
/dev/hde2 * 20888 24321 27583605 a5 FreeBSD
Then I booted from the CDROM, selected ad4s2, made (bsd-)partitions
therein (automatic: btw: Whay is there no /home allocated in the
automatic system?) and installed the system.
I decided to install the boot0 loader into the MBR of ad4.
Then I added the following to my lilo.conf:
other=/dev/hde
loader=/boot/chain.b
label=FreeBSD
and tried to boot from there. But what happened: I arrived at boot0 with
the following `menu':
F1 Linux
F2 FreeBSD
F5 ??
Default: F2
and that was it, here no Enter, F2 or anything else worked, no reaction,
beside Ctrl-Alt-Del and back to lilo.
I tried similar lilo entries:
other=/dev/hde2
table=/dev/hde
loader=/boot/chain.b
label=FreeBSD
but here the screen stays black at all.
To me it looks like there is no boot1 installed anywhere, or boot0
cannot access it.
I suspect that this is a problem of the cylinder border. The slice 2
starts well above the 1024 cylinder (or was it sector).
Can one of you tell me how I can boot this FreeBSD installation?
I can access the bsd partitions in rw mode from linux (kernel-2.6 self
compiled) and see all the files, but would really like to boot the beast
;-)
[Please Cc: me]
Thanks a lot and best wishes
Norbert
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