Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 13:53:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: RSK <rsk@u.arizona.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bootmgr Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9809281352270.29593-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <000701bde66a$df61eaa0$36ce8796@rsk.arizona.edu>
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Please wrap your lines at about 70 characters, thanks. On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, RSK wrote: > I have 3 hard drives. > > PRIMARY CONTROLLER: > 1) Master - 6.4 UDMA - FAT32 - Win98 Boot > 2) Slave - 6.4 UDMA - FAT32 - Storage > SECONDARY CONTROLLER: > 1) Master - 540meg - FreeBSD > 2) 32x CDROM > > Now when I installed freebsd, and install the bootmgr, I have tried > installing it on the 540 megger, AND on the Master 6.4 (thinking that > the machine would need the bootmgr on the MBR of the MAIN disk) and > NOTHING works... it just basically boots straight into win98 every > time. I have also set the 540meg and the master 6.4gig to BOOTABLE, > before installing the bootmgr... (I install the Easy boot option) and > nothing is working... its driving me nuts.. I get no menu, nothing, > just as if I never installed Freebsd... am I missing something? You may need to install BootEasy on the first disk manually. Sysinstall has a habit of putting it on the wrong disk. Swap the FreeBSD and the storage disk. Your BIOS can'tboot the FreeBSD volume; it can only see the first two disks. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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