Re: 5.3-beta3 boot manger show stopper problem
Richard Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Speaking of which... Where exactly are the text strings for F1, F2, F3, F4 stored? FAQ: How do I change the boot prompt from ??? to something more meaningful? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#CHANGING-BOOTPROMPT ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 5.3-beta3 boot manger show stopper problem
On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 02:58:02PM -0400, fbsd_user wrote: MS/Windows98 is first partition with 30% of 10 gig IDE hard drive. This booted and worked as expected. Downloaded 5.3-beta3 miniinstall.iso using my Freebsd server box, ran md5 and verified correct hash with checksum.md5 file. Burned to cdrom and installed 5.3 as second system on MS/Windows98 box with Freebsd default boot manager. Freebsd install went fine. On first reboot tried to load MS/Windows98. After F1 key win98 boot just hung there doing nothing. Did pc reset and boot started again, this time selected F3 key for 5.3 boot which just hung there doing nothing. Now hard drive is unusable. PC boot using MS/Windows98 floppy to get to native DOS prompt and ran fdisk which shows win98 and freebsd allocated as expected. This also happened with 5.3-beta1 and had to DOS fdisk HD to single partition and format c: before was able to reinstall win98 from cdrom. fdisk /mbr did not help. Just to test equipment I then installed 4.10 as second system with default Freebsd boot manager and every thing worked as expected. 5.3 install from downloaded iso image has show stopper problem using default boot manger. Anybody reading this post from the 5.3 release build team have any ideas on how to recover both systems on HD without blanking out HD like before? I had something like this happen a few times from my mistakes and found that gag bootloader will install and boot or recover both os. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 5.3-beta3 boot manger show stopper problem
On 09 Sep Mark wrote: I had something like this happen a few times from my mistakes and found that gag bootloader will install and boot or recover both os. In my case, GAG did install, the OS'ses could be added, but after choosing one (windows i.e.) the machine hang like it did before ;-) -- dick -- http://www.nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.10 ++ Debian GNU/Linux (Woody) + Nai tiruvantel ar vayuvantel i Valar tielyanna nu vilya ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 5.3-beta3 boot manger show stopper problem
Mark wrote: MS/Windows98. After F1 key win98 boot just hung there doing nothing. Forgive me if this is silly, but... In *MY* setup, F1 points to a teeny tiny partition that Windows XP Home Edition created with, err, looks like some kind of boot-strapping stuff in it. And *F2* is what gets me into Windows. F3 is also some Windows tiny partition. F4 is FreeBSD Speaking of which... Where exactly are the text strings for F1, F2, F3, F4 stored? Now that I know what's what, it's no big deal, but the anal/retentive part of me wants to label F2 suitably. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: 5.3-beta3 boot manger show stopper problem
Where exactly are the text strings for F1, F2, F3, F4 stored? Now that I know what's what, it's no big deal, but the anal/retentive part of me wants to label F2 suitably. http://gag.sourceforge.net/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
