Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 12:27:39 -0700 (PDT) From: "Keith Beattie[SFSU Student]" <beattie@george.lbl.gov> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3Qs: XFree86, BootEasy & Virt Terms Message-ID: <199608061927.MAA08116@george.lbl.gov>
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Doug White wrote: > > > How do I get BootEasy (or any bootmanager for that matter) to boot > > DOS from my 2nd IDE disk? My 1st IDE drive is all FreeBSD, 2nd is > > all DOS. Bootting from a DOS floppy works fine. From the booteasy > > menu: F5 ... DOS gives a never ending list of 040404040404... > > This usually means the geometry is wrong on the FreeBSD disk. This means > that you'll have to reinstall to remedy. Or, use a different boot manager > (such as OS-BS which is on the CD). > This seems likely. When I last reformatted/relabled/installed, my BIOS didn't have the correct geometry for that disk. Is it possible to tar-ball up the whole disk (I have room to store it on the 1G disk under /usr), fix the disk the correct geometry and untar it back? (OS-BS didn't seem to want to work for me.) I'm not sure of the exact procedure to do this. My guess is that since the disk has 3 slices on it (one of them is swap) I'd need to tar up / as one archive and /var as another. Then what program do I use to reformat the disk or is it relable? Thanks, Keith -- // Keith Beattie Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL) \\ // SFSU Grad Student Imaging and Distributed Computing Group (ITG) \\ // KSBeattie@lbl.gov http://www-itg.lbl.gov/~beattie \\ // 1 Cyclotron Rd. MS: 50B-2239 Berkeley, CA 94720 (510) 486-6692 \\
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