Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 19:59:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson <ANDRSN@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot Manager Problem Message-ID: <01I4PHN8ZESI005UMX@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU>
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Doug White wrote: :On Tue, 14 May 1996, Annelise Anderson wrote: > I have gotten into a little trouble with my OS/2 boot manager and I > hope someone here can tell me what to do. :Let's take a look. I have a similar system as yours, less scsi. > Originally DOS/Win3.1 and FreeBSD 2.0.5R were running on a 515 MB SCSI > drive with BootEasy installed. :OK... > 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. :That's OK, booteasy finds all sorts of stuff. It probably wouldn't have :worked anyway. > Then I deleted the DOS/Win3.1 partition on the first hard drive, > created two primary partitions there, and put that awful monster > Win95 on the first one, with the second hard drive disconnected. :Whoops. Win95 will wipe the boot sector when it installs. Yes, it always does. But I've done this successfully before (on a machine at home, also 2 SCSI drives. > Now BootEasy is apparently gone and I've reactivated OS/2's boot > manager, which sees everything on the first drive and the DOS > partition on the second drive, but not the FreeBSD 2.1S partition. > So to boot the 2.1S I have to select the 2.0.5 installation on the > first drive and type sd(1,a)/kernel. :OK... > 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? Annelise
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