From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 23 13:36:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA19633 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 23 Aug 1998 13:36:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.techno-link.com (ns.techno-link.com [212.36.0.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA19611 for ; Sun, 23 Aug 1998 13:36:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from plamendp@ns.techno-link.com) Received: from techno-link.com (pool3-var.techno-link.com [212.36.1.194]) by mail.techno-link.com (8.8.8/8.8.602) with ESMTP id XAA30087 for ; Sun, 23 Aug 1998 23:34:22 +0300 Posted-Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 23:34:22 +0300 Message-ID: <35E07DFA.ADB4BB29@techno-link.com> Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 23:39:22 +0300 From: Plamen Petkov Organization: ILKOM Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Active partition problem - bootin in FreeBSD set it to "non-bootable" References: Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------64E5A33D8841588C95DA9CE5" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --------------64E5A33D8841588C95DA9CE5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Doug White wrote: > > (re)boot > > booteasy menu > > Press F5 - FreeBSD -> go to booteasy menu from Slave Disk > > label: > > Press F1- FreeBSD - excpecting "Boot:" promt > > NO Boot: prompt, instead booteasy menu just redisplayed > > Okay, this means that something is wrong with the disk geometry. booteasy > can't seem to figure out what's going on, so it just loops. I'd sugest > finding a different boot manager, like OS-BS, with some more intelligence. > Doug, as always you are right. The disk geometry was set in a ">1024 cyl" manner - wrong! I run my 2.2.2-R CDROM install.bat and used the "Configure"->"Partition" to set the geometry as it has to be - under 1024 cyl. (I have no emergency boot floppy :-(() I'm happy now with OS-BS :-) 10x for suggestion. However, I'd add some comment here: It was not me that have changed the disk geometry - I never play with such things. Hronologicaly this happens RIGHT after I've changed my motherboard/processor from one I can't recall to GA 686 BX / P II MMX-266. I am not aware so deeply in the hardware but is it possible new BIOS to have something to do with my (ex)-problem ? -- ! REMOVE THE *SPAM* --- Plamen Petkov plamendp*SPAM*@techno-link.com ICQ: 2214327 --------------64E5A33D8841588C95DA9CE5 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Doug White wrote:
>     (re)boot
>     booteasy menu
>     Press F5 - FreeBSD -> go to booteasy menu from Slave Disk
> label:
>     Press F1- FreeBSD - excpecting  "Boot:"  promt
>     NO Boot: prompt, instead booteasy menu just redisplayed

Okay, this means that something is wrong with the disk geometry.  booteasy
can't seem to figure out what's going on, so it just loops.  I'd sugest
finding a different boot manager, like OS-BS, with some more intelligence.
 

Doug, as always you are right. The disk geometry was set in a ">1024 cyl" manner - wrong!  I run my 2.2.2-R CDROM install.bat and used the "Configure"->"Partition"  to set the geometry as it has to be - under 1024 cyl. (I have no emergency boot floppy :-(()

I'm happy now with OS-BS :-) 10x for suggestion.

However, I'd add some comment here: It was not me that have changed the disk geometry - I never play with such things. Hronologicaly this happens RIGHT after I've changed my motherboard/processor from one I can't recall to  GA 686 BX / P II MMX-266.

I am not aware so deeply in the hardware but is it possible new BIOS to have something to do with my (ex)-problem ? 

-- 
! REMOVE THE *SPAM*
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Plamen Petkov
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