Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 16:20:42 -0500 From: "Andrew L. Gould" <algould@datawok.com> To: Sergey "DoubleF" Zaharchenko <doublef@tele-kom.ru>, "radu.florin" <radu.florin@free.fr> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disk geometry Message-ID: <200309241620.42666.algould@datawok.com> In-Reply-To: <20030924200918.41abc329.doublef@tele-kom.ru> References: <oprv0e5zum43dlnc@smtp.free.fr> <20030924200918.41abc329.doublef@tele-kom.ru>
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On Wednesday 24 September 2003 03:09 pm, Sergey "DoubleF" Zaharchenko wrote: > On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 17:11:49 +0200 "radu.florin" <radu.florin@free.fr> probably wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm testing the coexistence of Win95, Linux Slackware and Free BSD 5.1 > > on a single physical disk PC ( P133, 16Mo RAM, 3 GO dd). > > Just the time to see if I can boot to the OS I want to use. > > Then to install on a PC with 384 Mo RAM a 40 Go dd > > On the P133 I'm testing, all is working fine with Win and Slack. > > Slack boot lets me go to Win or Linux without any problem. > > I installed also a minimal FreeBSD in good conditions. > > But I have no access at it... > > Slack boot don't see it. > > And if I accept-when installing Free BSD - one of his boots (MBR or SB) > > I can't have no Win, no Slack, neither FreeBSD. It displays the usual > > choice F1, F2... but no one works (just screaming). > > It seems to be a dd geometry problem. > > No. It is the BIOS that seems to be the problem. It might be unable to > do packet interface which is by default required by BootEasy. You could > try booting from a FreeBSD floppy and running > > #boot0cfg -o nopacket /dev/ad0BUGS > > (replace ad0 with the harddrive). man 8 boot0cfg for details. It says: > > man> Use of the `packet' option may cause `boot0' to fail, depending on > the man> nature of BIOS support. > > HTH I may be way off here, but were the bootable partitions for each operating set as bootable in the partitioning section of the installation procedures? Yesterday, I reinstalled Win2K on a portion of the 1st hard drive of my desktop. (FreeBSD is on the 2nd hard drive.) I then executed /stand/sysinstall in FreeBSD to mark the Win2K partition as bootable and load the FreeBSD boot loader into the MBR. Later, I installed NetBSD on the last part of the 1st hard drive, leaving the MBR alone during NetBSD installation. When I rebooted, the FreeBSD boot loader showed the partitions for each operating system; but would only boot Win2K and FreeBSD. I had to go back to /stand/sysinstall in FreeBSD to mark the NetBSD partition as bootable. Now I can boot all 3 operating systems (one at a time, of course!) . Best of luck, Andrew Gould
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