slice/booting problem

[J. W. Ballantine]

The third party boot manager does play nice, I've had this setup
working before (with the same BM [smartboot]), and everything worked fine.

Thanks

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>  Date:  Fri, 2 Mar 2007 16:45:51 -0500
>  To:  "J. W. Ballantine" <jwb at homer.att.com>
>  From:  Jerry McAllister <jerrymc at msu.edu>
>  Subject:  Re: slice/booting problem
>
>  On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 03:12:55PM -0500, J. W. Ballantine wrote:
>  
>  > 
>  > I have a two disk system, and I'm trying to install FBSD6.2 on slice 2
>  > of the second disk, a configuration that I've had working in the past.
>  > 
>  > I'm using the Standard installation, select the second disk (ad1)
>  > and create a slice (ad1s2) and then create the partitions within
>  > that slice.  On that disk, I install the FreeBSD Boot Manager (I have
>  > a third party boot manager installed on ad0 that boots FreeBSD).
>  > 
>  > During the install, I ls /dev and find the ad1s2 partitions created.
>  > 
>  > After the install, when I try to re-boot, it fails when it trys to
>  > mountroot.  When I enter ?, I get a listr of GEOM managed disks, but
>  > the partitions are not listed, while the slice is. 
>  > 
>  > Any ideas on what I'm missing???
>  
>  Just a wild guess:  That either the first or second disk didn't
>  really get an MBR written to it - or the third party boot manager
>  on the first disk might not play nicely with the one on the second 
>  disk.
>  Try using fdisk (from the install CD fixit if necessary) to write 
>  the FreeBSD MBR to both disks.   You can put the other third party 
>  booter back afterward if desired/needed.
>  
>  ////jerry
>  
>  > 
>  > Thanks
>  > 
>  > Jim Ballantine
>  > 
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