Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 18:45:19 GMT From: Joe <fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: i386/71538: multi-homed install trashes existing system & Freebsd will not boot Message-ID: <200409091845.i89IjJSa027247@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200409091850.i89IoF4B016599@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 71538
>Category: i386
>Synopsis: multi-homed install trashes existing system & Freebsd will not boot
>Confidential: no
>Severity: critical
>Priority: high
>Responsible: freebsd-i386
>State: open
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>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Thu Sep 09 18:50:14 GMT 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Joe
>Release: 5.3 beta3
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>Description:
MS/Windows98 is first partition with 30% of 10 gig hard drive. This booted and worked as exspected. Downloaded 5.3-beta3 miniinstall.iso, ran md5 and verified correct hash with checksum.md5 file. burned to cdrom and installed second system on MS/Windows98 box with Freebsd default boot manager. Freebsd install went fine. On first reboot tried to load MS/Windows98. After F1 key boot just hung there doing nothing. Did pc reset and boot started again, this tim selected F3 key for 5.3 boot. After F3 key Freebsd 5.3 boot just hung there doing nothing.
Now hard drive is unusable. PC boot using MS/Windows98 floppy to get to native DOS prompt and ran fdisk which shows win98 and freebsd allocated as exspected.
This also happened with 5.3-beta1 and had to DOS fdisk HD to single partition and format c: before was able to reinstall win98 from cdrom.
Just to test equipment I then installed 4.10 with default boot manager and every thing worked as exspected.
5.3 install from downloaded iso image has show stopper problem using default boot manger.
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