Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 23:39:22 +0300 From: Plamen Petkov <plamendp@techno-link.com> To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Active partition problem - bootin in FreeBSD set it to "non-bootable" Message-ID: <35E07DFA.ADB4BB29@techno-link.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808222104550.20446-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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--------------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 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML> Doug White wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE>> (re)boot <BR>> booteasy menu <BR>> Press F5 - FreeBSD -> go to booteasy menu from Slave Disk <BR>> label: <BR>> Press F1- FreeBSD - excpecting "Boot:" promt <BR>> NO Boot: prompt, instead booteasy menu just redisplayed <P>Okay, this means that something is wrong with the disk geometry. booteasy <BR>can't seem to figure out what's going on, so it just loops. I'd sugest <BR>finding a different boot manager, like OS-BS, with some more intelligence. <BR> </BLOCKQUOTE> 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 :-(() <P>I'm happy now with OS-BS :-) 10x for suggestion. <P>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. <P>I am not aware so deeply in the hardware but is it possible new BIOS to have something to do with my (ex)-problem ? <PRE>-- ! REMOVE THE *SPAM* --- Plamen Petkov plamendp*SPAM*@techno-link.com ICQ: 2214327</PRE> </HTML> --------------64E5A33D8841588C95DA9CE5-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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