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Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 13:25:55 +0200
From: Wouter de Boer <wouter.de.boer@pobox.com>
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root@disorder.oxygen.ml.org wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
>         I installed FreeBSD-3.0, and the installation ran smoothly, but
> after rebooting, the boot manager doesn't kick in. I can still access my
> FreeBSD partition's by using the boot disk and typing 1:wd(1,a)kernel or
> whatever, but i want the bootmanager to work... Someone told me that i
> have to install the bootmanager on wd0, but i'am not quite sure how to
> do this. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks,
> 
>                         --(ox@oxygen.ml.org)

I had the same problem. I installed FreeBSD 2.1.7 using my own local
network.
I installed FreeBSD on a new empty disk. I started to install and after
reboot I couldn't kick in to FreeBSD. Normally you see:

F1      BSD
F2	etc.

But this time I saw:

F?	BSD

I tried to use not the entire disk for FreeBSD but all thing failed. So
I tried for the last time to make a partition of 30 MB for DOS and the
next for FreeBSD. And from that time Boot Easy works. Is this normall
behavior ??

Create first another non FreeBSD partition and then a FreeBSD partition
??

If Yes, this is a big mistake in Boot Easy.

	Wouter