From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 17 20:05:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA14814 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 20:05:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA14802 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 20:05:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id UAA13170; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 20:05:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 20:05:33 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Geoffrey Robinson cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot manager problem In-Reply-To: <3470E7DD.12028998@accessv.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Geoffrey Robinson wrote: > 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. Excellent! > 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. Sounds like a geometry problem. To fix it you'll have to reinstall FreeBSD. 1. Using DOS FDISK, wipe out the FreeBSD slice and create a small primary DOS slice. 2. Boot the FreeBSD boot disk, remove the DOS partition, and install FreeBSD over it. Booteasy should pick up the proper geometry. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major