Re: Problems with booting & MBR

2005-08-05 Thread Stewart Morgan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, Vittorio De Martino wrote: | # fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 ad0 | fdisk: cannot open disk /dev/ad0: No such file or directory | | and with | | # fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 ad1 | fdisk: cannot open disk /dev/ad1: No such file or directory I

Re: Problems with booting & MBR

2005-08-01 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >>From dmesg: > ad0: 9541MB [19386/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA33 I think you just said that > vicbsd root# fdisk /dev/ad0 > vicbsd root# bsdlabel /dev/ad0s1 work OK, but that your problem (from a prior msg) is: >>># fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 ad0 >>>fdisk: cannot open di

Re: Problems with booting & MBR

2005-08-01 Thread vdm . fbsd
gt;To: Vittorio De Martino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >From: Glenn Dawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Problems with booting & MBR > > >At 08:25 AM 7/29/2005, you wrote: >>Friends, >>as suggested in the docs in the internet I tried both with >> >>

Re: Problems with booting & MBR

2005-07-29 Thread Vittorio De Martino
Alle 11:16, giovedì 28 luglio 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: > In the first disk ad0 (master) of a computer at office I had installed > linux to be used as a postgresql server. Later I installed FreeBSD 5.4 > (just to have a go at it) on a partition of the second disk ad1 (slave) to > be a po

Re: Problems with booting & MBR

2005-07-28 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Gary W. Swearingen wrote: If you're sticking to FreeBSD's boot0 MBR, you'll have to put one on each disk. I don't know if boot0 can remember "F5" as the default choice for auto-booting or not. But one way or another the first disk's boot0 needs to use "F5" to start the second disk's MBR/boot0

Re: Problems with booting & MBR

2005-07-28 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > # DeviceMountpoint FStype Options DumpPass# > /dev/ad1s2b noneswapsw 0 0 > /dev/ad1s2a / ufs rw 1 1 > /dev/ad0s1a /usr/local

Problems with booting & MBR

2005-07-28 Thread vdm . fbsd
In the first disk ad0 (master) of a computer at office I had installed linux to be used as a postgresql server. Later I installed FreeBSD 5.4 (just to have a go at it) on a partition of the second disk ad1 (slave) to be a postgrresql server too. Linux lilo was the boot loader, booting linux by de