From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 12 12:40:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24141153B3 for ; Wed, 12 May 1999 12:40:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA26438; Wed, 12 May 1999 12:40:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 12:40:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: David Kelly Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BootEasy not finding right disk on single disk system In-Reply-To: <199905062054.PAA18494@PeeCee.tbe.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 6 May 1999, David Kelly wrote: > Booted the 3.1R CD on a Gateway E-3100 P-200 system. Let sysinstall > delete the fat partition and create its own for FreeBSD. There are no > other filesystems on the drive. The only other drives are a plain old > floppy and ATAPI CDROM. The CDROM is on the secondary IDE interface. > > At boot, BootEasy offers: > > F1 FreeBSD > F5 Drive 0 > > F1 beeps and redraws the above. Selecting F5 results in a menu listing > only: > > F1 FreeBSD Ah, you have this happy little problem. If you have no other OSs on the disk, remove boot0. I think they attributed this bug to the BIOS, but I'm not sure. 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