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From: "Khuzaima A. Lakdawala" <klak@giasbm01.vsnl.net.in>
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Boot manager woes
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Hi,

I was happily using a dual-boot system since installing FreeBSD 4.0
with the following IDE configuration:

Primary Master: 2 GB Windows95 (Existing installation)
Secondary Master: 17 GB FreeBSD (New installation)
Primary Slave: CDROM

After installing FreeBSD I installed the boot manager on the Windows95
drive using the bootinst DOS utility. Everything worked fine. I could
boot Windows with F1 and FreeBSD (Disk 2) with F5 .

NOW, I switched the drives as follows:

Primary Master: 17 GB FreeBSD
Primary Slave: 2 GB Windows95
Secondary Master: CDROM

I just can't get dual-boot to work with this configuration.

I went into /stand/sysinstall and did the disklabel and fdisk
stuff. When prompted, I asked it to install the BootMgr on the FreeBSD
disk (ad0). I also happened to reinstall Windows 95 and made sure its
disk had a standard MBR with "fdisk /mbr".

The boot manager prompted:

F1 FreeBSD
F5 Drive 1

F5 did nothing! Just sat there. F1 did boot FreeBSD though.

So, I booted Windows using a floppy disk and ran bootinst. Installed
boot manager on the primary master disk and rebooted. Now the boot
manager prompts:

F1 FreeBSD
F5 Disk 2

Both F1 and F5 boot FreeBSD!!

I again boot Windows using floppy, run bootinst, and in desperation
ask it to install the boot manager on BOTH disks. Reboot. The boot
manager prompts:

F1 FreeBSD
F5 Disk 2

I press F5 and the boot manager prompts again:

F1 DOS
F5 Disk 2

Neither of the above choices boots DOS/Windows but goes into a weird
boot manager loop.

Please help me get my dual-boot working again!

The only way I can boot from the Windows drive right now is by
disabling the Primary Master in BIOS setup and letting it boot from
Primary Slave.

Please be kind enough to CC your replies (and replies to replies) to
me.

Thanks,
Khuzaima


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