Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 21:12:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Plamen Petkov <plamendp@techno-link.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Active partition problem - bootin in FreeBSD set it to "non-bootable" Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808222104550.20446-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <35DBEE31.3DA11EC7@techno-link.com>
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Okay, I know what the problem is now. > Then....I bootinst the boot.bin from 2.2.2-R CDROM on the Prim. Master && > Slave!!! disks (the original situation was with booteasy installed on the > MASTER ONLY) > > At this moment: > > (re)boot > booteasy menu > Press F5 - FreeBSD -> go to booteasy menu from Slave Disk > label: > Press F1- FreeBSD - excpecting "Boot:" promt > NO Boot: prompt, instead booteasy menu just redisplayed Okay, this means that something is wrong with the disk geometry. booteasy can't seem to figure out what's going on, so it just loops. I'd sugest finding a different boot manager, like OS-BS, with some more intelligence. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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