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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How to install booteasy. (posted before, please help me!) Date: 6 Jan 1996 22:44:53 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 39 Message-ID: <4cmu15$j7q@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <87wx75pvaq.fsf@compi.hobby.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <87wx75pvaq.fsf@compi.hobby.nl>, Peter Mutsaers <plm@compi.hobby.nl> wrote: >Then I issue 'disklabel -B sd1'. This should make the new root >partitions bootable, not? This will write boot blocks (in the FreeBSD compatibility slice) on the second drive, yes. >However after rebooting and choosing 2nd disk with the boot manager I >some error message. Uh, WHAT error message! :-) I'm asusming that it just won't chain-boot to it? I would acually suspect a geometry problem! >Now I try to put also the bootmanager (easyboot) on the 2nd disk. I NO, you don't want to do that. It goes on the *first* disk so that it can overcome the PC BIOS limitations and `chain boot' the second drive. >Then when I choose 2nd disk from the boot manager I get to choose one >of the slices on the 2nd disk. When I choose F4 (4th slice is the BSD >slice) I just get a question mark and get the boot manager again, Right. Your geometry on the 2nd drive was not set correctly when you cloned to the disk, now the boot manaager doesn't see the FreeBSD slice where it's supposed to be and can't boot anything. >Can someone tell me how I can accomplish this, or (even better) point >me to some documentation that describes disklabel and the boot manager >in more length than the man pages do? /usr/src/sbin/disklabel :-) Jordan