Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 19:57:01 -0500 From: Geoffrey Robinson <grobin@accessv.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Boot manager problem Message-ID: <3470E7DD.12028998@accessv.com>
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I ordered FreeBSD 2.2.5 a few days ago and installed it on my system. Its my first experience with a Unix operating system other then periodic use of shell accounts on ISP's and I'm really happy with it. Anyway, I'm having a problem with the boot manager that none of my other sources could help me with. Originally I was running Win'95 on a single 520MB hdd. I recently got a 3.5GB drive and installed FreeBSD on it. When I installed FreeBSD I took the Windows drive out of my computer just to be safe (I didn't quite know what I was doing and didn't want to wipe out my data). When I ran the install program I accepted the option to install the boot manager so that I could optionally boot from the windows drive. Now when I put the Windows drive back into my computer with it set as Primary Slave and the FreeBSD drive set as Master the bootmanager gives me the option to press F1 for BSD and F5 for the second drive. Problem is, is that it always boots from the FreeBSD drive regardless of what key I press. What can I do to fix this, it's a real pain having to switch drives all the time. Thanks. -- Geoffrey Robinson grobin@accessv.com Oakville, Ontario, Canada.
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