Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 15:30:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Toby Norris <TobyNorris@sysdac.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help! I cant't get FreeBSD to boot following a win98 upgrage. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9807291528290.24795-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <35BE2196.82C409CA@sysdac.com>
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On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Toby Norris wrote: > I had a perfectly working FreeBSD setup with Windows95. My system has > three hard disks: 1 internal eide (3GB), 1 internal fast&wide scsi > (4.2GB), and an external scsi (2GB). My FreeBSD installation is on its > own external hard disk. Everything worked fine until I upgraded my > system to Windows98. During that upgrade I also upgraded one of my > internal hard diske from a 2GB eide disk to a 4.2GB fast&wide scsi > disk. All internal disks were reformatted and a fresh Windows98 > installation was successfully done. Now all I want to do is get access > to my external hard disk with FreeBSD on it. I followed your > instructions to reinstall easyboot, but easy boot can't seem to find > FreeBSD. Luckily I can still boot to Windows98 by pressing return, but > nothing I do allows me to boot to FreeBSD. All I get is the F?? prompt. Geometry problems or else booteasy hates Fat32. > Please let me know if I can get my FreeBSD installation to boot > following a Windows98 installation and a hard disk change. I hope and > pray that I won't have to completely reinstall FreeBSD. It took me > weeks to get FreeBSD all configured and networked with my other > computers. I would hate to have to go through all that again. Did you install the new disk's SCSI target higher or lower than the FreeBSD disk? If you changed the drive ordering, your system will ``panic: can't mount root'' if you can get it started. Try booting the boot floppy and typing sd(0,a)/kernel at the boot: prompt. If that doesn't work try sd(1,a)/kernel. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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