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Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 08:47:39 -0700 (MST)
From: Charles Mott <cmott@snake.srv.net>
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Subject: Re: ubanle to boot
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On Thu, 28 Aug 1997, spork wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 28 Aug 1997, Charles Mott wrote:
> 
> > I have FreeBSD installed on the second drive as you do.  What I have found
> > is that Booteasy needs to be installed on both drives, and during bootup,
> > it runs twice, first on drive 1 then on drive 2.
> 
> What were you seeing when you only had it on the first drive?  Was it
> trying to mount the wrong drive as root?  If so, you just gave me a
> solution to my problem...;)
> 
> Charles
> 

When I had Booteasy only on the first drive (DOS) and not on the second
drive, it gives the usual "F1 ... F5" prompt, and when I hit F5 for the
second disk, it is not able to boot. 

Booteasy is not perfect, but once one gets it working, the incentive to
improve it goes away.  It does the job.

Charles Mott