Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 14:43:04 -0500 From: Mark <boxend@redtick.homeunix.com> To: fbsd_user <fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.3-beta3 boot manger show stopper problem Message-ID: <20040909194304.GA73478@redtick.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGIEPMGKAA.fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com> References: <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGIEPMGKAA.fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com>
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On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 02:58:02PM -0400, fbsd_user wrote: > MS/Windows98 is first partition with 30% of 10 gig IDE hard > drive. This booted and worked as expected. Downloaded 5.3-beta3 > miniinstall.iso using my Freebsd server box, ran md5 and verified > correct hash with checksum.md5 file. Burned to cdrom and installed > 5.3 as 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 win98 boot just hung there doing nothing. > Did pc reset and boot started again, this time selected F3 key for > 5.3 boot which 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 expected. > 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. fdisk /mbr did not help. > > Just to test equipment I then installed 4.10 as second system with > default Freebsd boot manager and every thing worked as expected. > > 5.3 install from downloaded iso image has show stopper problem using > default boot manger. > > Anybody reading this post from the 5.3 release build team have any > ideas on how to recover both systems on HD without blanking out HD > like before? > I had something like this happen a few times from my mistakes and found that gag bootloader will install and boot or "recover" both os.
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