Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 11:57:50 +0530 (IST) From: "Khuzaima A. Lakdawala" <klak@giasbm01.vsnl.net.in> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Boot manager woes Message-ID: <200011160627.LAA00343@home.this-is-not-a-domain.in>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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