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Date:      Thu, 22 Jun 1995 13:59:35 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Howard Lew <hlew@genome.Stanford.EDU>
To:        Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu>
Cc:        bde@zeta.org.au, bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: 2.05R panics on boot
Message-ID:  <Pine.SUN.3.91.950622125747.5737A-100000@marmite.Stanford.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <9506182125.AA19481@cs.weber.edu>

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On Sun, 18 Jun 1995, Terry Lambert wrote:

> What you need to do is:
> 
> 1)	Make sure DM is on the first drive [this is done]

done

> 
> 2)	Boot the first drive under DOS to activate the DM INT 13
> 	redirector.

done

> 
> 3)	Use the DOS installation to install OS-BS onto the first drive
> 	as a replacement for the displace DOS MBR.  The partition table
> 	will exist in the OS-BS MBR instead of the DOS MBR.
> 

done

> *)	At this point, you should be able to boot of the first drive into
> 	the OS-BS menu and select "DOS", acusing the DOS to boot correctly.
> 	Do not proceed past this point until this is the case.
> 

done

> 4)	At this point you should be able to ask it to boot of the second
> 	drive (assuming you have OS-BS installed correctly.  This will
> 	fail, but you should make sure that you can attempt to boot off
> 	the second drive.
> 
yes it fails.  but done.


> 
> Subsequent steps will [potentially] require the reinstallation of BSD.
> If you are not prepared to do this, you should rely on booting with a
> floppy.  To make it more convenient, you can change the default device
> in the floppy boot blocks, which will result in the floppy booting the
> correct device.  The method for doing this is well documented in the
> hackers list archive on freefall.cdrom.com.  This archive can also be
> accessed via www at http://www.freebsd.org.
> 
> 5)	Install OS-BS on the second drive.  This may or may not be
> 	easy to accomplish.  If the partition table on the second

os-bs would not install on the second drive, so I had to use booteasy 
instead.

> 	drive is a remnant of a DOS install, then this will be easy;
> 	otherwise you will have to use the DOS command fdisk/mbr on
> 	the second DOS drive.  YOU MUST GIVE THE DOS DRIVE LETTER AS
> 	A PARAMETER.  In addition, the /mbr option is not available
> 	in DOS revisions prior to 5.0.  At this point you can install
> 	OS-BS and reinstall BSD.
> 
> Now when you boot, you will get an option to choose the DOS partition
> or the second drive.  Tho boot BSD, choose the second drive option in
> the OS-BS menu.  You will get another OS-BS menu (the DOS option in
> this menus will not work).  Choose the FreeBSD option, and it should
> boot correctly.
> 

The system starts up with the Ontrack DM dynamic overlay, and then 
goes into os-bs, and I am presented with a menu for DOS or FreeBSD.  I 
choose FreeBSD, and I see the booteasy prompt for BSD or Disk 1.  I 
choose BSD, but the system hangs.  I also tried booting with booteasy 
installed on both drives. It still hangs after I choose BSD for the second 
drive.  DOS boots okay though.  I guess I'll have to boot from a modified 
boot.flp.



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