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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!hookup!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news2.isp.net!ispnet!news.114.69!not-for-mail From: sstorkel@actioneer.com (Scott Storkel) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: HELP: Boot Manager Problems Date: Wed, 24 Apr 96 18:41:28 GMT Organization: Actioneer, Inc. Lines: 46 Message-ID: <4llseq$ido@114.69> References: <4lbi2c$msq@ganesh.sdstate.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.24.114.69 NNTP-NEWS-ADMIN: newsadmin@114.69 X-Newsreader: News Xpress 2.0 Beta #0 In article <4lbi2c$msq@ganesh.sdstate.edu>, hartzeld@cc.sdstate.edu (Dave Hartzell) wrote: >This weekend I recently tried to install FreeBSD 2.1.0 off of FTP. As far >as I can tell, the installation went well except for the Boot Manager part. > >I have two hard drives in my machine- a 130 and a 406 MB. I put FreeBSD on >the second Partition of the 406 drive, which is my slave. I have OS/2 on >the 130, DOS on the 1st partition of the 406 and now FreeBSD on the second >partition of the 406. > >Now when I attempt to boot my computer, I get a `Press any key to Reboot' >message. I had a similar problem. My first disk is dedicated to Windows 95, while the second disk contains FreeBSD 2.1 and Windows NT. You can use FDISK to fix the problem. Use it to reset the active partition on the primary hard drive. The FreeBSD installation program will have munged this. It seems that the FreeBSD boot manager doesn't expect to get installed on the second drive. As near as I can tell, it munges the boot blocks on the first drive, but doesn't manage to run it's code from the second drive. Sure wish somebody from the FreeBSD project would fix this (or give me a kick in the right direction so that I can fix it)! When I asked about this before, I didn't get any responses. This is sort of surprising, since I'd think many people were running in this kind of a config. In any event, the only thing I've found that can boot FreeBSD from a second drive is OS Boot Select (http://www.prz.tu-berlin.de/~wolf/os-bs.html). Unfortunately, if you've already installed the NT boot loader, you're screwed: booting into 95 or NT will end up running the NT boot loader rather than booting the operating system directly :-( BTW, once you install the OS-BS 2.0b8, it's there for good! :-( I'm still looking for somebody who can tell me how to make this stuff work with the NT boot loader, my preferred approach... -- Scott ============================================================================== Scott Storkel 539 Bryant Street, Ste. 402 Software Engineer San Francisco, CA. 94107 Actioneer, Inc. 415-882-4372 (FAX) ==============================================================================