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Date: Fri, 07 Mar 1997 08:56:12 -0800
From: Robert Clark <ROBERTC@PII.COM>
To: jyingling@ppc-inc.com
Cc: nadav@barcode.co.il
Subject:  Re: Booting -Reply
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John, don't give up, even if it
takes tries, or people, to make
things work, it should work.

I've yet to find a situation like
this, where OSBS isn't worth
looking at.

It may just be a personal bias,
but there seems to be more info I
can relate to in OSBS.

Email me direct if you need more
info.

				[RC]

>>> Nadav Eiron
<nadav@barcode.co.il> 03/07/97
07:11am >>>


On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, John Yingling
wrote:

>  >  > ----------
> > From: Nadav Eiron
<nadav@barcode.co.il>
> > To: John Yingling
<jyingling@skyenet.net>
> > Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org
> > Subject: Re: Booting
> > Date: Thursday, March 06, 1997
2:52 AM
> >  > Nadav,
>  > Yes, I am using IDE drives. 1
primary(host) with dos partitions
and 1
> secondary(slave) with a dos and
a BSD partition.  I am trying to
use
> BootEasy.
>  > All drives and partitions
were set up as DOS, then during
BSD install I
> deleted the second partition on
the slave drive and recreated it
as a BSD
> partition.  (I have also tried
setting up the drives using Fips).
>  > I have tried doing the things
you suggest but when I allow BSD
to setup
> BootEasy automaticly nothing
will happen when I press any of
the listed
> function keys.  It creates
functions keys like F1 - ??, F2 -
??, F5 - disk
> 2.  I have also tried using
Bootinst.exe but that did not work
either.
> 

First, I've CC'ed the questions
list, so that anyone else trying
to help  you will be able to use
that info.

Second, it seems like a geometry
problem. What is the geometry of
your  disk (as the BIOS think it
is and as the boot floppy thinks
it is)?

I'm sorry, but I don't know about
geometry problems (never had one
:-). I  hope other people will be
able to help you better.

>  > John

Nadav