From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 1 16:37:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA19533 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 1 Feb 1997 16:37:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from coralsea.CS.Berkeley.EDU (coralsea.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.42.59]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA19525 for ; Sat, 1 Feb 1997 16:37:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from coralsea.CS.Berkeley.EDU (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by coralsea.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA25394 for ; Sat, 1 Feb 1997 16:36:59 -0800 Message-ID: <32F3E1AA.6AD4@uclink4.berkeley.edu> Date: Sat, 01 Feb 1997 16:36:58 -0800 From: JOSHUA PAUL VERMETTE X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; HP-UX A.09.05 9000/712) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: bootloader Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I currently have BSD on my 400M master and linux on my 2.5G slave, and am running the BSD bootloader. Why does it have options for both BSD and linux (linux through the "other disk" option), but will only recognize the F key that corresponds to BSD? (another symptom is that it seems to be reading F2 and F3 as F4, and not reading F1 at all. This actually happened also when I had Linux on the master and BSD on the slave, except then it would only read F5 ("other disk"), and wouldn't recognize the other F keys at all. In case it matters, the 2.5G HD is a Maxtor 72700AP (with 5248 cylinders, which is why I can't install the Linux bootloader at all) and my computer is a Gateway (with the programmable keyboard). My life is sorrow. Help? Thanks JoshVermette.