Re: Dualbooting STABLE CURRENT
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 01:26:10PM -0800, Steve Wingate wrote: STABLE taking the entire first disk (works fine) CURRENT taking the first 1/3 of the second disk and backup data taking the remaining 2/3 of the second disk. I have installed CURRENT (at least 8 times) but I cannot get it to boot. Choosing F1 on booteasy boots STABLE. Choosing F5 boots nothing but it then shows an F2 entry for FreeBSD. I choose F2 and nothing happens. I have tried boot easy on the first disk, the second disk, both disks and nothing seems to work. I have tried making both slices making bootable and every possible derivative I can think of. What am I missing here? What exact steps did you take to set this up? Also please boot into some version of FreeBSD and post the output of: fdisk da0 disklabel da0s1 fdisk da1 disklabel da1s1 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dualbooting STABLE CURRENT
Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 20:38:36, s.wingate (Steve Wingate) wrote about Re: Dualbooting STABLE CURRENT: I don't like the sound of that. I'll just stick with STABLE until 5.x is really ready. -STABLE will have the same problem since its in boot0 and the BIOS, not the OS on the partition its trying to boot. SW Actually STABLE will have no problems as it's been running on this box for SW over a year. You have working STABLE on first disk, not on second. Well, please show fdisk output for both disks. -netch- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dualbooting STABLE CURRENT
I need some help dual booting STABLE CURRENT. I have two SCSI disks with: STABLE taking the entire first disk (works fine) CURRENT taking the first 1/3 of the second disk and backup data taking the remaining 2/3 of the second disk. I have installed CURRENT (at least 8 times) but I cannot get it to boot. Choosing F1 on booteasy boots STABLE. Choosing F5 boots nothing but it then shows an F2 entry for FreeBSD. I choose F2 and nothing happens. I have tried boot easy on the first disk, the second disk, both disks and nothing seems to work. I have tried making both slices making bootable and every possible derivative I can think of. What am I missing here? +-+ |Steve Wingate [EMAIL PROTECTED] |MCSE, CCNA Sat Nov 1 13:10:00 PST 2003 +-+ |FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE | 1:10PM up 2 days, 5:17, 0 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 +-+ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dualbooting STABLE CURRENT
On Sat, 1 Nov 2003, Steve Wingate wrote: I need some help dual booting STABLE CURRENT. I have two SCSI disks with: STABLE taking the entire first disk (works fine) CURRENT taking the first 1/3 of the second disk and backup data taking the remaining 2/3 of the second disk. I have installed CURRENT (at least 8 times) but I cannot get it to boot. Choosing F1 on booteasy boots STABLE. Choosing F5 boots nothing but it then shows an F2 entry for FreeBSD. I choose F2 and nothing happens. I have tried boot easy on the first disk, the second disk, both disks and nothing seems to work. I have tried making both slices making bootable and every possible derivative I can think of. What am I missing here? Try to install booteasy from STABLE, only from STABLE, to both harddisk. don't install booteasy when install CURRENT or try to recover boot easy from STABLE on the second hardisk as described in the handbook it works for me sham khalil ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dualbooting STABLE CURRENT
Try to install booteasy from STABLE, only from STABLE, to both harddisk. don't install booteasy when install CURRENT or try to recover boot easy from STABLE on the second hardisk as described in the handbook it works for me sham khalil I have tried this and it still doesn't boot to CURRENT. +-+ |Steve Wingate [EMAIL PROTECTED] |MCSE, CCNA Sat Nov 1 16:10:00 PST 2003 +-+ |FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE | 4:10PM up 2 days, 8:17, 0 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 +-+ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dualbooting STABLE CURRENT
On Sat, 1 Nov 2003, Steve Wingate wrote: I need some help dual booting STABLE CURRENT. I have two SCSI disks with: STABLE taking the entire first disk (works fine) CURRENT taking the first 1/3 of the second disk and backup data taking the remaining 2/3 of the second disk. I have installed CURRENT (at least 8 times) but I cannot get it to boot. Choosing F1 on booteasy boots STABLE. Choosing F5 boots nothing but it then shows an F2 entry for FreeBSD. I choose F2 and nothing happens. I have tried boot easy on the first disk, the second disk, both disks and nothing seems to work. I have tried making both slices making bootable and every possible derivative I can think of. What am I missing here? Nothing happens probably means its beeping but I can't hear it :) If that happens, its because boot0 and the BIOS can't figure out how to reach the partition, generally because the geometry is wrong. Try zeroing off the front end of the disk, partitioning it with DOS FDISK, then put FreeBSD on it. -- Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dualbooting STABLE CURRENT
Nothing happens probably means its beeping but I can't hear it :) If that happens, its because boot0 and the BIOS can't figure out how to reach the partition, generally because the geometry is wrong. Try zeroing off the front end of the disk, partitioning it with DOS FDISK, then put FreeBSD on it. I don't like the sound of that. I'll just stick with STABLE until 5.x is really ready. +-+ |Steve Wingate [EMAIL PROTECTED] |MCSE, CCNA Sat Nov 1 19:40:00 PST 2003 +-+ |FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE | 7:40PM up 2 days, 11:47, 0 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 +-+ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dualbooting STABLE CURRENT
On Sat, 1 Nov 2003, Steve Wingate wrote: Nothing happens probably means its beeping but I can't hear it :) If that happens, its because boot0 and the BIOS can't figure out how to reach the partition, generally because the geometry is wrong. Try zeroing off the front end of the disk, partitioning it with DOS FDISK, then put FreeBSD on it. I don't like the sound of that. I'll just stick with STABLE until 5.x is really ready. -STABLE will have the same problem since its in boot0 and the BIOS, not the OS on the partition its trying to boot. -- Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dualbooting STABLE CURRENT
I don't like the sound of that. I'll just stick with STABLE until 5.x is really ready. -STABLE will have the same problem since its in boot0 and the BIOS, not the OS on the partition its trying to boot. Actually STABLE will have no problems as it's been running on this box for over a year. +-+ |Steve Wingate [EMAIL PROTECTED] |MCSE, CCNA Sat Nov 1 20:30:00 PST 2003 +-+ |FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE | 8:30PM up 2 days, 12:37, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 +-+ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
