"boot0cfg -B -o packet ad0" worked, thanks :)
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 15:31:55 -0700 "Kevin Oberman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 18:11:53 -0400 > > From: Daemon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > 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. > > > > This system will definitely support packet bootstrap. Did you try: > boot0cfg -B -o packet ad0 > > This should do the trick for you. > > The other option is to use Partition Magic to move the partitions > around so that the FreeBSD partition is at the front of the disk. > > Last thought: is the drive configured in BIOS as LBA? I don't think the > Dell BIOS even has an option to make the disk CHS, but I don't have a > Dell handy to check it out at the moment. Any disk over 2 GB should be > accesses as LBA. > > 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
