Andrew Falanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ok, I was following my post in usenet (didn't know that messages
posted here were propogated there, cool). Someone responded to
another chap who was having a similar problem as mine that the issue
was probably that they hadn't loaded the FreeBSD bootloader on to the
second drive. So, I did this:
# as root
dd if=/dev/ad0 of=mbr.ad0 bs=512 count=1
boot0cfg -B ad0
In my system, the IDE drive (with windows) is ad0 and the SATA drive
with FreeBSD is ad4.
Now, when I'm presented with
F1 - FreeBSD
F5 - Drive1
I press F5 and am presented with
F1 - DOS
F5 - Drive0
This differs in that when I was presented with F5 on the first menu
I'd press it and FreeBSD would boot. Now, it appears to try to boot
Windows but all that happens is I get a blank screen for a few seconds
then the machine does a soft reboot and I'm back to the bootloader
prompts after the BIOS does its thing. What could be the issue now?
Hard to say; you have used too many pronouns without making clear what
they referred to. Also, you removed the previous discussion from the
e-mail, so we can't tell what the previous problem had been, and why
you added the bootloader on the second drive (which should not be
necessary). Luckily you copied off the existing boot sector from the
disk, so you should be able to restore it through the reverse procedure.
P.S. What does 'ad' mean in ad0, ad1 ... adN?
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=adapropos=0sektion=4manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE+and+Portsformat=html
Also, remember that I'm
not a member of this list. Please respond to me directly when you
respond to the list as well.
That should be normal procedure.
Someone who responded last time
mentioned a gmail account, or something, if that is some sort of
work-around for folks like me with limited space for e-mail, I'd
like to know more.
It's an e-mail account from Google.
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