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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoregon.edu!gatech!news.sprintlink.net!gryphon.phoenix.net!usenet From: tbrock@phoenix.net Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.05R & OS/2 BootMgr Date: 29 Jul 1995 01:49:33 GMT Organization: Phoenix Data Systems Lines: 41 Message-ID: <3vc43d$942@gryphon.phoenix.net> References: <14e5mmg0stdT073yn@sscp.lkg.dec.com> <3v6mh2$4ro@cedar.mr.net> Reply-To: tbrock@phoenix.net NNTP-Posting-Host: dial64.phoenix.net X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2 In <3v6mh2$4ro@cedar.mr.net>, srose@mr.net (Steve Rose) writes: >You could just replace Linux with FreeBSD, keeping the same partition >setups. After installing FreeBSD, make sure you tell it to leave the >MBR alone. After rebooting, FreeBSD will be the "active" partition. >You can change this by booting from a DOS floppy and use fdisk to mark >the boot manager as active or use the OS/2 install disks.. If you want >to change the name in the boot manager menu, use the OS/2 install >disks. <caveat> I'm not running Linux, so I'm not familiar with LILO. > > > >//===============================================// > Steve Rose Mounds View, MN srose@mr.net I've got a very similar problem that I've been stumped for a couple of days with. I have three hard drives total, one IDE and two SCSI. As we all know (painfully) the IDE drive *MUST* be the boot drive so this forces me to install Boot Manager (OS/2's version) on the IDE drive and have OS/2 actually installed on one of the SCSI drives (SCSI ID #1). On the rest of the IDE drive I have a DOS partition for those really bored times. Using the Boot Manager works great for booting the IDE DOS partition or booting the OS/2 HPFS partition. Here's the kicker, I have installed FreeBSD on the first SCSI drive (SCSI ID #0) and I can't make that silly Boot manager work with it. What I get is this, BSD starts to boot after selecting it with the Boot Manager. It runs through it's initial probes just fine but when it goes to mount root it attempts to mount it to sd(1,a)/kernal! FreeBSD isn't installed on this drive (Or should be as this is my OS/2 drive!). Okay, I think. I'll just pull the IDE drive out (My solution for most of my troubles!) and see what happens. Zip... BSD comes up fine and uses sd(0,a)/kernal as the root mount. No problems whatsoever. Does anyone have a clue as to how I could configure this? I'd be willing to start from scratch if I could just get all three OS's accessable without having to pull cables off. I thought about installing the FreeBSD Boot Manager on the IDE drive but the option eludes me in the new install program. The old one had an option in Fdisk to just hit B to install the boot manager on a drive. This current version didn't seem to have that or maybe I missed it in my caffeine induced blurivision. NOTE: I can optionally remove the IDE HD from my BIOS setup to allow FreeBSD to boot correctly if that is helpful at all. TIA, Tony