Date: Fri, 16 Jun 1995 23:47:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Howard Lew <hlew@genome.Stanford.EDU> To: Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu> Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 2.05R panics on boot Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950616233235.17115B-100000@vegemite.Stanford.EDU> In-Reply-To: <9506142050.AA19501@cs.weber.edu>
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> > > > Now only if the system would boot up with the boot manager. What ever > > > > happened to the boot manager that was used on the SNAPs? That one > > > > seemed to work be able to boot up even on this 850 WDC drive with Ontrack > > > > DM installed. Booteasy wasn't able to do it. They were different > > > > right? or has something changed? > > > > > Now BSD's new slice code knows about the DM MBR. But the installation > of the MBR code does not. And the installation doesn't use BIOS, so > like a raw floppy boot, it overwrites the DM MBR. > > The fix is to make the "OS-BS" or other boot track installation in BSD > know about the DM MBR by recognizing it (it has ID crap so you can do > this). OR YOU CAN INSTALL THE BOOT MANAGER AFTER BOOTING DOS OF THE > HARD DRIVE. Okay... I've given up on Booteasy, and I have tried installing a boot manager (OSBS2.0b8) a number of ways. If I install the boot manager after booting up DOS from hard drive C, the boot manager comes up after the Ontrack DM, but when I choose the FreeBSD partition (wd1), OS-BS just hangs the system. But if I choose the MSDOS partition, it doesn't crash. If I install OS-BS after booting from a DOS floppy, OS-BS shows the OS menu before it gets to the Ontrack DM. If I choose FreeBSD, it comes up fine (perfecto!) But if I choose MSDOS, the system says: Missing Operating System. :-( I have also toggled around the writing of the active partion flag on bootup with no luck either. As for setting the ID in OS-BS... Do I change the value (I think it was 50 something) to a DOS value? And should I do this after booting from a DOS floppy? Thanks for your continuing assistance.
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