From owner-freebsd-current Sat Oct 24 11:09:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA28086 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 24 Oct 1998 11:09:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles209.castles.com [208.214.165.209]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA28081 for ; Sat, 24 Oct 1998 11:09:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA05142; Sat, 24 Oct 1998 11:13:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199810241813.LAA05142@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: User MAT cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How To Fixup A New Install -- Trivial Importance In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 24 Oct 1998 13:47:11 -0000." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 11:13:29 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Three Questions : > > 1: He installed on a second drive. When he boots he gets > F1: ??? (or something like this) > but no indication of what key to push to get to drive 2. (On the > secondary IDE). Mine says F3: Disk 2 (ok, maybe not exactly and my drives > on channel one). Can this be fixed/changed? You might need to get hold of the 'booteasy' tool from ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/tools and install it. You can use a different bootmanager (eg. NT, System Commander, OS-BS) instead if you prefer. We were experimenting with a new bootmanager that properly handles disks > 1024 cylinders, but it needs a little more testing; this was fixed in a subsequent rebuild where we reverted to booteasy. On the other hand, if your friend has an odd number of disks in his system (3, 5 etc) then this is a known bug in booteasy. > 2: Also his wont boot unless you explicitly type 1:wd(2,a)kernel I was > under the impression that it stored this information. No; you need to put it in the file /boot.config yourself. (There's doesn't seem to be an easy way to *obtain* this information, unfortunately). -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message