On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 14:13:15 -0700 "Kevin Oberman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It's on a Dell Deminsion 4300 ... barely a year old and has a Maxtor 7200 40Gig hard drive. I also tried going to the ../tool directory on the "Install" cd and doing bootisnt.exe boot.bin in the DOS prompt but that didn't work either. Looking at the partitions in Partition Magic, I can see both partitions "Active" but can't boot into FreeBSD. Also, if I try to boot into FreeBSD using the "PQBoot" program is shows what was "F3=DOS" as "F3=???" upon reboot. I have to load the Partition Magic "restore" floppies in order to make the DOS partition Active again so I can at least boot into Windows. > Is this a big disk? If the FreeBSD partition starts at a cylinder > > 1023, this is what you will see. > > If this is the case, try: > boot0cfg -o packet -B ad0 (or whatever your boot disk is). > > This is a sticky problem as older systems will not work with the > packet option and CHS boot access on large disks will fail if the boot > partition is too far into the disk. Unless your hardware is quite old, > packet should work fine. (Of course, you may want added options like > -m, but that's up to you.) > > R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer > Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) > Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- The FoxSurfer Group Admin FoxSurfer.Com FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
