Date: Sun, 15 Mar 1998 01:20:16 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding a Boot-Mgr... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980315010947.280A-100000@thelab.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <199803090502.VAA13161@dingo.cdrom.com>
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On Sun, 8 Mar 1998, Mike Smith wrote:
> >
> > Until recently, I haven't had enough disk space in order to
> > install other operating systems, but just acquired a couple of extra
> > drives. I want to install Win95 onto one of them for the explicit purpose
> > of running Simply Accounting for the business.
> >
> > How do I, if I can, go about adding in a boot-mgr so that I can
> > dual boot?
>
> Windows 95 can only be booted from the first disk in the system, unless
> you invest in one of the commercial boot managers.
>
> Lots of people have recommended System Commander for this.
>
> The cheaper way of doing it:
>
> - Reconfigure your /etc/fstab so that FreeBSD will run as the second
> disk.
> - Reconfigure the disk that FreeBSD is on to be the second disk.
> - Install the new disk for W95 as the first disk,
> - Install W95 on it.
> - Put the 'bootinst.com' and 'boot.bin' files on a bootable DOS floppy
> (get them in the tools directory on any FreeBSD release disk), and
> use them to install booteasy on your first disk.
Finally got a chance to work on this...First thing I tried was to leave
the drives as is, and do the 'bootinst' to write the boot
blocks...rebooted the machine, now it gives me:
F1 - FreeBSD
F5 - disk 2
If I hit F1, it gives me the menu back again...if I hit F5, I get:
F1 - DOS
F2 - FreeBSD
F5 - disk 1
If I hit F1, I get "Non-system disk", if I hit F2, I get the 'boot:'
prompt, where I have to type 'wd(0,a)/kernel' to get a boot to my hard
drive.
So, now I swap the drives, so that my 'Primary IDE' becomes Secondary, and
vice versa, and then boot.
I get the second menu first (as expected), at which I can hit F1, and it
boots to DOS, and if I hit F2, I get the boot: prompt again. Note that my
boot (FreeBSD) disk is now on disk 2, not disk 1, with disk two being
primary drive on secondary IDE chain.
At the boot: prompt, I type in wd(2,a)/kernel, and get a bunch of:
Error: D:0x82 C:0 H:0 S:0
If I type in wd(1,a)/kernel, I get the boot sequence (dmesg output?), but
after its reported all my hardware (accurately), I get a crash when it
tries to mount wd1a ...
If I boot off floppy and do the fixit disk, I can mount /dev/wd2a
properly...so why can't I seem to get it from the 'boot:' prompt?
I'm running 3.0-CURRENT right now, if that means anything...
Help?
Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org
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