From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 6 12:58:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA12839 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 6 Nov 1997 12:58:18 -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 MAA12832 for ; Thu, 6 Nov 1997 12:58:14 -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 MAA00812; Thu, 6 Nov 1997 12:57:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 12:57:45 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Jacques Hugo cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting from first hdd In-Reply-To: <199711060654.IAA04675@linkage.ctech.ac.za> 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 Thu, 6 Nov 1997, Jacques Hugo wrote: > I've installed 2.2.5 on my box this morning. > I've got 2 SCSI hardrives in there. After doing > the slicing, the whole installation went well, > but .... when the system boots, I get options > > --------------------- > F1 ... BSD > F5 ... disk2 > > F?: > --------------------- > > The first disk I toggled bootable, and installed > the strap. The second disk I left as is. Whenever > I type in F1 to boot from the first disk, nothing > happens and the boot options are echo'd again. If you're not planning on putting any bootable OSs on the second disk, then use a DOS boot floppy and run FDISK /MBR to remove the Boot Manager. Fixing this involves reinstalling. Your geometry was mis-detected by the installation program and while this won't impact system operation it will mess up booteasy. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major