ad0 mountable after sysinstall, but invalid from boot mgr / mbr (7.2-R)

2009-10-22 Thread Steve Franks
Just did an install on a disk. Never seen this before, but I made my own partitions instead of 'a' for automatic, and they came up as ad0s1c-g, instead of ad0s1a-e. Sysinstall (7.2 release) seemed to progress complete just fine. When I try to boot the disk, I get invalid partition, then boot:

Re: ad0 mountable after sysinstall, but invalid from boot mgr / mbr (7.2-R)

2009-10-22 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:48:01 -0700, Steve Franks bahamasfra...@gmail.com wrote: So, I jump back to the liveFS disk, thinking sysinstall zorked the disk, but I can mount the disk (ad0s1d) just fine, and see the contents of /mnt/boot/kernel and see /mnt/boot/loader* (never seen a file with a *

Re: Boot and MBR.

2004-02-27 Thread Jud
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 20:21:25 -0900, Mark Weisman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've tried setting the MBR within fdisk from the FBSD side of the house, however, it won't set. I go through all the motions, yet when it goes to write it says that it can't write to drsk ad0. I then went into a dos

Re: Boot and MBR.

2004-02-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 01:11:28PM -0900, Mark Weisman wrote: The second question I have, is can I put the command startx into my rc.conf file to have it boot directly into the x-server? Any help on these two would be awesome. Thanks. Other people have described how you can arrange for startx

Re: Boot and MBR.

2004-02-27 Thread HOLLOW, CHRISTOPHER
You can also Grub it up: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/ http://www.daemonnews.org/200102/grub.html Grub is a popular and well-supported OSS boot loader HTH, Chris Jud wrote: On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 17:18:01 -0900, Mark Weisman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just out of curiosity what is the

Re: Boot and MBR.

2004-02-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
Manager Standard Install a standard MBR (no boot manager) None Leave the Master Boot Record Untouched On this screen you want to choose the first one: BootMgr Then use the tab to make sure OK is selected and go on to the next stuff. After this you will be put in to a screen to divide

Re: Boot and MBR (Gnome)

2004-02-27 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Matthew Seaman wrote: On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 01:11:28PM -0900, Mark Weisman wrote: The second question I have, is can I put the command startx into my rc.conf file to have it boot directly into the x-server? Any help on these two would be awesome. Thanks. snip If you're a Gnome

booting into X (was: Boot and MBR (Gnome))

2004-02-27 Thread Robert Huff
Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. writes: I did this just last night; this seems to do it (and I was a bad boy, just hacked it w/o looking at the docs) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [/home/kadmin][10:26] #cat /etc/ttys | grep gdm ttyv0 /usr/X11R6/bin/gdmcons25 on secure

RE: Boot and MBR.

2004-02-27 Thread Mark Weisman
Site Master Mystic1.net -Original Message- From: Jerry McAllister [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 7:24 AM To: Mark Weisman Cc: Jerry McAllister; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Boot and MBR. Just out of curiosity what is the order in creating a dual boot

Re: booting into X (was: Boot and MBR (Gnome))

2004-02-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 11:45:18AM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. writes: I did this just last night; this seems to do it (and I was a bad boy, just hacked it w/o looking at the docs) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [/home/kadmin][10:26] #cat /etc/ttys |

Re: Boot and MBR.

2004-02-27 Thread Jud
On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 10:50:03 -0500, HOLLOW, CHRISTOPHER [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Jud wrote: [snip] 3. Install GAG, a free, easy and automagical boot loader. URL: http://gag.sourceforge.net/. You can also Grub it up: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/

RE: Boot and MBR.

2004-02-27 Thread Mark Weisman
-Original Message- From: Jud [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 8:46 AM To: HOLLOW, CHRISTOPHER; Mark Weisman Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Boot and MBR. On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 10:50:03 -0500, HOLLOW, CHRISTOPHER [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Jud wrote: [snip] 3

RE: Boot and MBR.

2004-02-27 Thread Jud
On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 08:06:43 -0900, Mark Weisman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I've installed GAG, and that is a really easy setup! It identified all the partitions, and what was in them, stepped me through the process of copying the manager to the disk and everything, kudos for the recommendation!

RE: Boot and MBR. Thank YOU!

2004-02-27 Thread Mark Weisman
Sorry for being such a pest, my boss kept asking why my computer wasn't working, and I'm not ready to ready for him to know I've got BSD loaded. I was in panic mode because I couldn't get my Windows XP screens and applications to come up. I deeply apologize, I was finally able to read all of your

Re: Boot and MBR.

2004-02-27 Thread HOLLOW, CHRISTOPHER
, February 27, 2004 8:46 AM To: HOLLOW, CHRISTOPHER; Mark Weisman Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Boot and MBR. On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 10:50:03 -0500, HOLLOW, CHRISTOPHER [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Jud wrote: [snip] 3. Install GAG, a free, easy and automagical boot loader. URL: http

Re: Boot and MBR. Thank YOU!

2004-02-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
Sorry for being such a pest, my boss kept asking why my computer wasn't working, and I'm not ready to ready for him to know I've got BSD loaded. I was in panic mode because I couldn't get my Windows XP screens and applications to come up. I deeply apologize, I was finally able to read all

Re: Boot and MBR.

2004-02-26 Thread Jerry McAllister
I've got my primary drive divided in two partitions, one partition had WindowsXP and the other has FreeBSD 5.1-Release on it. I had WindowsXP installed and working until I put FreeBSD on the second partition and had it take control of the MBR. I know that the other partition is still

RE: Boot and MBR.

2004-02-26 Thread Mark Weisman
Ipsa Loquitor, Mark-Nathaniel Weisman Site Master Mystic1.net -Original Message- From: Jerry McAllister [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 1:27 PM To: Mark Weisman Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Boot and MBR. I've got my primary drive divided in two

Re: Boot and MBR.

2004-02-26 Thread Robert Storey
The second question I have, is can I put the command startx into my rc.conf file to have it boot directly into the x-server? Any help on these two would be awesome. Thanks. I have not been successfule with that sort of thing. Anyway, I don't think just putting it in rc.conf would do

Re: Boot and MBR.

2004-02-26 Thread Jud
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 17:18:01 -0900, Mark Weisman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just out of curiosity what is the order in creating a dual boot system? Which operating system do you put on first? I see that having WinXP setup in partitions is not a good idea, yet I'm not aware of how to load the system

RE: Boot and MBR.

2004-02-26 Thread Mark Weisman
: Thursday, February 26, 2004 5:49 PM To: Mark Weisman; Jerry McAllister Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Boot and MBR. On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 17:18:01 -0900, Mark Weisman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just out of curiosity what is the order in creating a dual boot system? Which

RE: Boot and MBR.

2004-02-26 Thread Mark Weisman
this thing online. I need my workstation back as soon as possible. Thanks. Res Ipsa Loquitor, Mark-Nathaniel Weisman Site Master Mystic1.net -Original Message- From: Mark Weisman Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 4:59 PM To: Jerry McAllister Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Boot and MBR

Boot and MBR.

2004-02-26 Thread Mark Weisman
I've got my primary drive divided in two partitions, one partition had WindowsXP and the other has FreeBSD 5.1-Release on it. I had WindowsXP installed and working until I put FreeBSD on the second partition and had it take control of the MBR. I know that the other partition is still bootable if I