From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 20 0:34:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-10.mail.demon.net (finch-post-10.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38CF914F06 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 00:34:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by finch-post-10.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 10ZV0T-0006ge-0A; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 07:31:45 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from support-3.uk.radan.com (support-3 [193.114.228.220]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id IAA02026; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 08:31:06 +0100 Received: from uk.radan.com by support-3.uk.radan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id IAA01529; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 08:31:05 +0100 Message-ID: <371C2D03.2F78A72A@uk.radan.com> Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 08:30:11 +0100 From: Mark Ovens Organization: Radan Computational Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en-GB MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cjclark@home.com Cc: Kevin McCarty , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot to FreeBSD 3.1 on wd1 from NTLDR on wd0? References: <199904200228.WAA28875@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Crist J. Clark" wrote: > > Kevin McCarty wrote, > > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 3.1 RELEASE from CD onto a second hard > > disk in a Dell Optiplex GXi, and I'm having trouble with the boot > > sequence. > > Just a shot in the dark, but have a look at, > > http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/FAQ49.html > This FAQ will tell you that FreeBSD must be on the *same* disk as NT for you to use NTLDR. The reason? because the first sector of the FreeBSD slice that you dd(1) into C:\RWD1S1A.BSD on C:\ only contains slice (DOS:partition) info, not the disk info. This is why you get a boot error, NTLDR is trying to find the partition described in C:\RWD1S1A.BSD on the first disk. I have NT and FreeBSD on my system (2 HDs) and to get round the problem I have a small FreeBSD slice on my first HD (/, /var, and swap) and all 4.5GB of the second disk is for /usr. The minimum you need is to have ``/'' on the first HD (~32MB). HTH > Other than that, there is too much NT in there for me to really know > what is going on. > -- > Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov _______________________________________________________________ Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath UK CAD/CAM solutions for Sheetmetal Working Industry mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message