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From: brian@anorak.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help Me !!!
Date: 25 Nov 1996 16:42:00 -0000
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In article <32990B33.25D8@mindspring.com>,
volverine <volverine@mindspring.com> writes:
: Hi all,
: I have DOS, NT 4.0 and FreeBSD on my system. FreeBSD was
: installed after DOS and NT 3.51 after it. Meanwhile I have upgraded my
: NT to 4.0 Everything was fine till I upgraded to NT 4.0 which sometimes
: use to screw up booting. ( Comp.usually hangs. I have to switch off
: and start again. ) After this I ran Auto SCSI and set default factory
: settings and everything worked fine. BUT now BSD seems to be dead. I
: can't boot to BSD since it tells me there is no driver assigned. It
: seems to detect everything but fails to boot. It does detect my
: BusLogic ( which is BT-948 ) scsi adapter but says Panic ... Can not
: mount root. Also now when I try to reinstall it says there are not
: hard disks. Can anybody help me resolve this mess ???
How do you boot FreeBSD ? Do you have just one hard drive with three
partitions ?
It seems like you've changed your geometry (via Auto SCSI?) so that
your bios can find the freebsd slice, but freebsd itself can't. I'd
suggest booting FreeBSD from a floppy and using the fixit disk (the fdisk
program) to sync FreeBSDs understanding of the geometry with that of
your BIOS.
: Also now if I want to get rid of this BSD what shall I do ? I have boot
: manager installed so if I delete this partition, what will happen to
: startup menu ??? How do I get rid of it ?? I can't say "sys c:" because
: my NT 4.0 starts from here.
Running "fdisk /mbr" will remove the "F1,F?" type menu from boot time.
It'll leave it so that BOOT.INI keeps control.
BTW, with NT you can dump the first 512 bytes of your FreeBSD partition
into a file (say C:\FREEBSD.INI) and put an entry in BOOT.INI saying
something like
C:\FREEBSD.INI="Boot FreeBSD"
Beats all sorts of sh*t out of two boot menus :)
--
Brian <brian%anorak.coverform.lan@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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