From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 6 13:54:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nebula.tbe.com (nebula.tbe.com [140.165.2.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BF9A15A38 for ; Thu, 6 May 1999 13:54:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@PeeCee.tbe.com) Received: from PeeCee.tbe.com (peecee.tbe.com [140.165.23.35]) by nebula.tbe.com (8.8.6 (PHNE_14041)/8.8.6) with ESMTP id PAA03572 for ; Thu, 6 May 1999 15:54:30 -0500 (CDT) Received: from PeeCee.tbe.com (localhost.tbe.com [127.0.0.1]) by PeeCee.tbe.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA18494 for ; Thu, 6 May 1999 15:54:27 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dkelly@PeeCee.tbe.com) Message-Id: <199905062054.PAA18494@PeeCee.tbe.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: BootEasy not finding right disk on single disk system From: David Kelly Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 15:54:25 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 And that works. But doesn't work if there is a power failure or some such. Failed to find anything about this mentioned in the FAQ or Handbook. Changing the BIOS boot device settings didn't change anything. Didn't have this problem with an older Gateway P-133, but that machine boots SCSI. I'm stumped. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nebula.tbe.com ======================================================================== Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message