From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 2 15:14:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.netcologne.de (mail2.netcologne.de [194.8.194.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7738A37B73D for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 15:14:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pherman@frenchfries.net) Received: from bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de (dial-195-14-250-121.netcologne.de [195.14.250.121]) by mail2.netcologne.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA20184; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 00:14:27 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (localhost.security.at12.de [127.0.0.1]) by bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id e72MELw01051; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 00:14:21 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 00:14:21 +0200 (CEST) From: Paul Herman To: Steve Sizemore Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Multiboot linux + freebsd on two drives In-Reply-To: <20000802123655.A4511@cmpharm.ucsf.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Steve Sizemore wrote: > > What kind of errors do you get? There are two boot loaders, the small > > one that gives you the boot: (not literaly, I hope! :) and the > > "loader" which counts down the seconds for you. > > The error message is a beep. I get the list of selections, press > F5 for "other disk" and then a new list of selections - F1 for > FreeBSD, F5 for other disk. F5 takes me back to the first disk > (containing linux), but F5 simply beeps. (That's why I think the problem > is with boot1 or boot2.) This means BootEasy (boot0) isn't finding boot1. Either it isn't there at all, or it's looking in the wrong place for it. > My current hypothesis is that boot0 is working, but either can't > find, or can't load, boot1 from /dev/da1s1. Anyone know how to > test this? I believe your hypothesis is correct. It sounds like you already have a running system, so you can check if boot1 is indeed where it should be. This is the first 512 bytes of your /dev/da1s1 ("less -f", or "hd", or....) It should be identical to the /boot/boot1 file. If that looks OK, then boot0 must be looking for boot1 in the wrong place (it uses the partition table in the MBR.) This is typicaly a geometry problem with IDE drives, but you seem to be using SCSI drives, which all have pretty much the same geometry. Hmmm... -Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message