Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 19:18:33 -0700 (PDT) From: mike@hyperreal.org To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu (Doug White) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot manager acting strangely Message-ID: <19990619021833.11149.qmail@hyperreal.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906181652500.34137-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> from Doug White at "Jun 18, 1999 04:53:11 pm"
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Doug White wrote: > > Drive 0 > > slice 1 = 128 MB FAT partition w/MS-DOS 6.22 > > slice 2 = 1.6 GB FreeBSD (system) > > > > Drive 1 > > slice 1 = 1.7 GB FreeBSD (not mounted yet) > > Try running fdisk /mbr against this drive to clear the MBRs. How do you run fdisk /mbr on a different drive? > Also check your active partition bit. Drive 0 Slice 2 is active. Drive 1 Slice 1 is active. DOS's fdisk doesn't let you unset an active partition, and won't let you set one on Drive 1. FreeBSD fdisk will only let you set a partition # 1,2,3 or 4 active. There's only one partition on the drive, it's already active, and I can't figure out how to unset it. Result of running DOS's fdisk /mbr: no more OS chooser menu; boots straight to FreeBSD partition (wd0s2) /stand/sysinstall's implementation of fdisk and the boot loader installer is downright fucked for post-install configurations, and the help screens are no help. No matter how I go about it, it always keeps throwing me back into the fdisk screen. If someone is in charge of this part of /sysinstall, contact me (ICQ 31695219 if I'm on) and we'll walk through all the problems together; they're too much to try to list here. Anyway, I am able to get the OS chooser portion of the boot loader installed again via a certain method, but I am right back where I started: F1 DOS = beep F2 FreeBSD = beep F5 Drive 0 = next menu F1 DOS = boot to DOS (wd0s1) F2 FreeBSD = boot to FreeBSD (wd0s2) F5 Drive 1 = mysterious prompt ".....Boot 2>." and hang Bloody hell. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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