Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 16:41:52 -0700 From: Skye Poier <skye@ffwd.bc.ca> To: mlduke@concentric.net Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot Manager Message-ID: <19980827164152.47215@ffwd.bc.ca> In-Reply-To: <35E5E63E.53AB@concentric.net>; from ML Duke on Thu, Aug 27, 1998 at 05:05:34PM -0600 References: <35E5E63E.53AB@concentric.net>
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Did you install BootEasy on the second hard drive as well with bootinst.exe? Did you mark the partition containing FreeBSD's root filesystem as bootable (A or Active)? Skye Word on the street is that ML Duke said: > Fully repartitioned a 3815M hard drive and installed > FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE with a good, error free install, > disk dedicated to FBSD > > wincrud et al running on disk zero, 514M. Half of the > Boot Manager works. F1 boots win, F5 just gives F5 again, > repeatedly. > > Read the docs, read the FAQ, tried everything: Deliberately > reinstalled win to wipe out the boot manager, then in DOS: > bootinst.exe boot.bin with success. > > Have done it the second way: boot install floppy, custom > installation, partition, write, MBR, also successul. Same > result. > > Made a fixit floppy: Did disklabel -B /dev/wd0s1 (wd0s1 correct) > which returns "Bad pack magic number (label is damaged, > or pack is unlabeled)". > > Any suggestions from anywhere would be greatly appreciated. > > $ms is in for a final and complete divorce when this box is > up and running. > > ML Duke To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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