From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Feb 7 02:14:24 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA03737 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 02:14:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ceia.nordier.com (196-31-98-15.iafrica.com [196.31.98.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA03730 for ; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 02:14:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rnordier@nordier.com) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by ceia.nordier.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id MAA09163; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 12:12:25 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199902071012.MAA09163@ceia.nordier.com> Subject: Re: Dedicated disk and boot manager In-Reply-To: <199902070931.MAA25895@shuttle.svib.ru> from Alex Povolotsky at "Feb 7, 99 12:31:42 pm" To: tarkhil@asteroid.svib.ru Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 12:12:22 +0200 (SAT) Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alex Povolotsky wrote: > Hello! > > I've installed 3.0-STABLE, partitioning disk as "dedicated", and have some > troubles with boot manager. > > When the disk is second IDE, boot manager (the FreeBSD's BootEasy) doesn't prompt me > for second disk. When it is first, all attempts to install BootEasy on it > didn't result in anything working :-( > > What could I have done wrong? By "dedicated", I assume you mean what FreeBSD calls "dangerously dedicated". This way of doing things simply does not work with boot managers. What does fdisk(8) report about the disk? -- Robert Nordier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message