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From: spooky130u on 14 Feb 2010 11:05
In article <KdKdn.87198$BV.53072(a)newsfe07.iad>, I wrote:

>Something very, very odd is going on here....

And now it's getting even stranger. I tried re-installing FreeBSD on the
USB drive. This time, the boot manager did get installed---still on the
USB drive, not on the main drive. Fine...whatever. So, I boot (or,
rather, attempt to boot) FreeBSD from the simple boot manager (F1 for
FreeBSD, F5 for disk1). The second FreeBSD boot menu (with more options)
comes up...select boot FreeBSD. Everything looks great, everything
appears to be recognized, then ... "mountroot> "...same error as the one
I typed in in a previous post.

Btw, the install this time was the plain old standard install, installed
onto the USB drive, nothing written to the c:/ drive at all. No packages
installed this time, either.

I mentioned that things are even stranger now..... After basically
giving up on getting FreeBSD working on this laptop (at least, without
nuking XP, which, unfortunately, I still need for some applications),
I rebooted back to the plain/simple boot manager, and selected F5 to boot
to disk1....

It didn't work. It was either "missing operating system" or
"operating system missing" ... but the point is, the boot manager was
installed, but it didn't work. No worries...I know I didn't fsck up
the internal drive, so I changed the BIOS back to boot from it, and I'm
back in XP+Cygwin+XFree plus remotely accessing my FreeBSD 7 desktop in
another room. And I already have a massive headache....

Oh well.....

Later,
--jim

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From: Warren Block on 14 Feb 2010 12:48
spooky130u(a)NOSPAM.gmail.com <spooky130u(a)NOSPAM.gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I mentioned that things are even stranger now..... After basically
> giving up on getting FreeBSD working on this laptop (at least, without
> nuking XP, which, unfortunately, I still need for some applications),
> I rebooted back to the plain/simple boot manager, and selected F5 to boot
> to disk1....
>
> It didn't work. It was either "missing operating system" or
> "operating system missing" ... but the point is, the boot manager was
> installed, but it didn't work. No worries...I know I didn't fsck up
> the internal drive, so I changed the BIOS back to boot from it, and I'm
> back in XP+Cygwin+XFree plus remotely accessing my FreeBSD 7 desktop in
> another room. And I already have a massive headache....

How about an alternate suggestion:

Install VirtualBox (http://www.virtualbox.org/) on the Windows machine.
Create a VM for FreeBSD and put the virtual drive files on the external
USB drive.

That eliminates the booting problem, avoids ACPI and notebook hardware
support problems. Better yet, it lets you have both systems running at
the same time. The two systems share RAM, but otherwise the impact is
minimal.

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From: spooky130u on 14 Feb 2010 13:50
In article <slrnhngdsb.165e.wblock(a)lightning.wonkity.com>,
Warren Block <wblock(a)wonkity.com> wrote:

>How about an alternate suggestion:
>
>Install VirtualBox (http://www.virtualbox.org/) on the Windows machine.
>Create a VM for FreeBSD and put the virtual drive files on the external
>USB drive.

Sounds very interesting.... I'll definitely try that out.

Thanks!
--jim

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