Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 14:47:18 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Aleksandar Obradovic <alex@montenegro.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with the drive Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9811101446040.2215-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <005201be0ce8$a7d2ab20$5c265dcf@obradoa.fnic.net>
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On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, Aleksandar Obradovic wrote: > I used to have perfectly fine 2.2.6 system running on one SCSI2 drive with > partitions > sd0s1 DOS > sd0s2a / > sd0s2b /SWAP > sd0s2e /VAR > sd0s2f /USR > > I had boot set up so it gives me options > F1...DOS > F2...FreeBSD > > My bios was set up to boot from SCSI first and then from C. > > Then I needed to add WinNT to the box (business requirement, not a personal > preference) so I slapped in another drive trying not to touch my FreeBSD > drive. I put in 4 gig IDE drive, configured BIOS to boot from C first and > then SCSI, and installed NT fine. Whoa, hold it here cowboy. Going from SCSI-only to IDE-SCSI will freak out most BIOSen. I'd suggest using a SCSI drive instead if you have one, it'll save you lots of grief. > However, when I switched back the BIOS to boot from SCSI first in order to > boot my FreeBSD, I got the old menu > F1...DOS > F2...FreeBSD > but this time FreeBSD would not boot any more, it would just hang. Where? > all I see is lost+found directory that has many many #9999 entries, where 9 > can be any digit. That's not good. What did you do?!? Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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