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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!imci3!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!pagesat.net!quack!quack.kfu.com!nsayer From: nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer) Subject: Re: A problem with Booteasy on a three OS notebook drive Message-ID: <nq1hc6X@quack.kfu.com> Sender: news@quack.kfu.com (0000-News(0000)) Organization: The Duck Pond public unix, +1 408 249 9630, log in as guest. References: <wvhgsknoei.fsf@ecotone.toad.com> Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 19:08:28 UTC Lines: 37 hugh@ecotone.toad.com (Hugh Daniel) writes: > I have a NEC notebook with a single hard drive, I have three >'slices' on it, F1 is WinDross-95, F2 was a spare, F3 is FreeBSD 2.1R >where I do most of my work. > I decided to upgrade to the early May SNAP and noticed that much of >it was missing so I took the safe route and installed it on F2 to be >safe (nothing to wipe out...). > I got it working but decided that I wanted to stick with the 2.1R >system and so rebooted and asked Booteasy for F3, yet it gave me F2 >(the May SNAP). Now both F2 and F3 yeild F2 while F1 still gives me >the correct F1. > I installed what seems to be Booteasy-1.7 but that changed nothing, >and the slice table looks good, so me thinks that booteasy-1.[47] has >problems. > If anyone knows the botom line, a better package or the quick fix >email me, else I am going to have to slug it out with the code. It's not booteasy's fault. It's the secondary boot code in the partitions (the bit where it asks you for the device, kernel name and kernel arguments). You can only boot from the first FreeBSD partition on a drive. If you select the 3rd partition, it will load the SBR from that partition, but it will only see the first FreeBSD partition and load the kernel from there. The only way out is to boot that kernel single user and then run /sbin/fdisk and change the 2nd partition to an unused one. You can also use DOS FDISK and delete the 2nd parition (which amounts to the same thing, really). -- Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com> | "Dear Sexy Knickers. I don't half fancy N6QQQ @ N0ARY.#NORCAL.CA.USA.NOAM | you. Meet me at the lift at 5:30 and +1 408 249 9630, log in as 'guest' | we'll get it together." URL: http://www.kfu.com/~nsayer/ | -- Mr. Lucas