From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 23 7:11:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from news.lucky.net (news.lucky.net [193.193.193.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D38B137B699 for ; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 07:10:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mail@localhost) by news.lucky.net (8.Who.Cares/8.Who.Cares) id REE25991 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 17:10:51 +0200 (envelope-from news@news.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua) From: "Andrey Simonenko" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot manager and filesystem Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 16:44:07 +0300 Organization: NTUU "KPI" Message-ID: <94k5cc$iqh$1@igloo.uran.net.ua> References: <3A6D8354.5A679C86@subdimension.com> X-Trace: igloo.uran.net.ua 980261068 19281 10.18.54.109 (23 Jan 2001 14:44:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@news.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Try to use another boot manager. I suggest to use UNILOAD. You can check if it works for your PC just install it on floppy and then bootstrap from floppy. If everything works, i.e. you can boot Windows and FreeBSD, you can install it in MBR. Please use install.exe program from DOS, because FreeBSD and Linux port for UNILOAD is seemed to be out of date, and should be fixed for newest version of FreeBSD and Linux then versions for which I created port of UNILOAD. I haven't time to do it now. You can download this boot manager from http://www.simon.org.ua/uniload/ Ani D wrote in message news:3A6D8354.5A679C86@subdimension.com... > hi > i've got two hard disks. 4.2GB and 2.1GB. ad0 and ad2 (as shown in the > freebsd install). now, i have windows on ad0 and want to install freebsd > on ad2. when it asks me on which drive i want to install freebsd, i say > ad2 and it takes me to a screen where it shows the partition info of > ad2. that was the simple part. at this point it hasn't asked me to give > the filesystem breakup info. > > next, it asks wether i want to install the freebsd boot manager in the > mbr or standard boot loader or whatever. i choose the first option and > then it asks on which disk. ad2 is already checked (probably because of > the last step) here, i need need the boot loader in the mbr. so that's > on ad0. so i uncheck ad2 and say ad0. but then it asks me to give the > filesystem info like where to put swap, the native slice, etc. thing > is...it automatically choses ad0 for the filesystem. how do i change > this? when i go back and come to the bootmanager question and chose the > first option, it directly takes me to the screen where i have to set up > the filesystem structure. here, is there any way i can indicate that it > has to be on ad2? > > where do i indicate which partition is bootable? when i said ad0 (on my > last attempt) i got a boot loader that can load windows but chosing > freebsd lands me at the boot prompt. > > what do i do? > > thanks > ani d > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message