I can not boot my FreeBSD-5.2 partition, please help

2004-01-16 Thread Juan Rodriguez Hervella
Hello,

I've got a 40 GBytes hard disk on an old Pentium MMX 266 MHz.
The first time I plugged it into the motherboard my BIOS didn't recognize
the drive, but fortunately there is a jumper that reduces the size of the
disk to 32 GBytes, and that's enough for my BIOS at this moment.

So I've got something like this:

10 GBytes for Windows 2000
10 GBytes for Linux
10 GBytes for FreeBSD-5.2

The big problem is that the FreeBSD boot manager that I've
got installed on my MBR is only able to boot the Windows partition.

So, for booting Linux I've got a 1.44 booting disk. How can I do the same
for booting the FreeBSD-5.2 partition ? Do I have other posibilities ?
Any help will be kindly appreciated, but not tell me buy another hard
disk...buy another puter.. I love my puter, ok ? (^--^)

PD: Reply directly to me because I'm not subscribed to the list

Thanks!


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Re: I can not boot my FreeBSD-5.2 partition, please help

2004-01-16 Thread Hanspeter Roth
  On Jan 16 at 12:30, Juan Rodriguez Hervella spoke:

 Hello,
 
 I've got a 40 GBytes hard disk on an old Pentium MMX 266 MHz.
 The first time I plugged it into the motherboard my BIOS didn't recognize
 the drive, but fortunately there is a jumper that reduces the size of the
 disk to 32 GBytes, and that's enough for my BIOS at this moment.
 
 So I've got something like this:
 
 10 GBytes for Windows 2000
 10 GBytes for Linux
 10 GBytes for FreeBSD-5.2
 
 The big problem is that the FreeBSD boot manager that I've
 got installed on my MBR is only able to boot the Windows partition.

Hello Juan,

I assume that you have installed all OSes on primary partitions, if
not you should mention it.
FreeBSD's bootmanager has an option `packet' which is required to
boot from cylinder  1023. Unfortunately it is set off by default.

There are two (or more) possibilities to recover. 

1. install the FreeBSD bootmanager into MBR and Lilo/Grub into the
   Linux partition (/dev/hda2). In order to install the FreeBSD
   bootmanager with the packet option you should boot the FreeBSD
   recovery disk. This is the second disk. And then choose Fixit
   from the install menu. After you have the root prompt issue the
   following command:

   boot0cfg -vB -o packet /dev/ad0

   (This assumes you have a IDE disk.)

2. launch the Linux recovery CD/floppy and setup Lilo or Grub
   accordingly.
   You would need to install it in the MBR (/dev/hda) and create
   entries for Windows and FreeBSD as well.

-Hanspeter
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Re: I can not boot my FreeBSD-5.2 partition, please help

2004-01-16 Thread Dany
Using SBM Smart Boot Manager http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/  I was able 
to boot my FreeBSD 5.2R out of the box which is located on the upper 
part of the disk (40G to 80G).

It uses MBR for installation, so you can boot from a DOS floppy. Backup 
your existing MBR and isntall this nice tool.

Dany

Hanspeter Roth wrote:

 On Jan 16 at 12:30, Juan Rodriguez Hervella spoke:

 

Hello,

I've got a 40 GBytes hard disk on an old Pentium MMX 266 MHz.
The first time I plugged it into the motherboard my BIOS didn't recognize
the drive, but fortunately there is a jumper that reduces the size of the
disk to 32 GBytes, and that's enough for my BIOS at this moment.
So I've got something like this:

10 GBytes for Windows 2000
10 GBytes for Linux
10 GBytes for FreeBSD-5.2
The big problem is that the FreeBSD boot manager that I've
got installed on my MBR is only able to boot the Windows partition.
   

Hello Juan,

I assume that you have installed all OSes on primary partitions, if
not you should mention it.
FreeBSD's bootmanager has an option `packet' which is required to
boot from cylinder  1023. Unfortunately it is set off by default.
There are two (or more) possibilities to recover. 

1. install the FreeBSD bootmanager into MBR and Lilo/Grub into the
  Linux partition (/dev/hda2). In order to install the FreeBSD
  bootmanager with the packet option you should boot the FreeBSD
  recovery disk. This is the second disk. And then choose Fixit
  from the install menu. After you have the root prompt issue the
  following command:
  boot0cfg -vB -o packet /dev/ad0

  (This assumes you have a IDE disk.)

2. launch the Linux recovery CD/floppy and setup Lilo or Grub
  accordingly.
  You would need to install it in the MBR (/dev/hda) and create
  entries for Windows and FreeBSD as well.
-Hanspeter
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Re: I can not boot my FreeBSD-5.2 partition, please help

2004-01-16 Thread Dany
Using SBM Smart Boot Manager http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/  I was able 
to boot my FreeBSD 5.2R out of the box which is located on the upper 
part of the disk (40G to 80G).

It uses MBR for installation, so you can boot from a DOS floppy. Backup 
your existing MBR and isntall this nice tool.

Dany

Hanspeter Roth wrote:

 On Jan 16 at 12:30, Juan Rodriguez Hervella spoke:

 

Hello,

I've got a 40 GBytes hard disk on an old Pentium MMX 266 MHz.
The first time I plugged it into the motherboard my BIOS didn't recognize
the drive, but fortunately there is a jumper that reduces the size of the
disk to 32 GBytes, and that's enough for my BIOS at this moment.
So I've got something like this:

10 GBytes for Windows 2000
10 GBytes for Linux
10 GBytes for FreeBSD-5.2
The big problem is that the FreeBSD boot manager that I've
got installed on my MBR is only able to boot the Windows partition.
   

Hello Juan,

I assume that you have installed all OSes on primary partitions, if
not you should mention it.
FreeBSD's bootmanager has an option `packet' which is required to
boot from cylinder  1023. Unfortunately it is set off by default.
There are two (or more) possibilities to recover. 

1. install the FreeBSD bootmanager into MBR and Lilo/Grub into the
  Linux partition (/dev/hda2). In order to install the FreeBSD
  bootmanager with the packet option you should boot the FreeBSD
  recovery disk. This is the second disk. And then choose Fixit
  from the install menu. After you have the root prompt issue the
  following command:
  boot0cfg -vB -o packet /dev/ad0

  (This assumes you have a IDE disk.)

2. launch the Linux recovery CD/floppy and setup Lilo or Grub
  accordingly.
  You would need to install it in the MBR (/dev/hda) and create
  entries for Windows and FreeBSD as well.
-Hanspeter
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