From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Jul 24 20:43:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA11047 for bugs-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 20:43:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nervosa.netcom.com (nervosa.vendetta.com [192.187.167.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA11040 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 20:43:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from coredump@localhost) by nervosa.netcom.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA08667; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 20:43:42 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 20:43:41 -0700 (PDT) From: goamatic To: hmmm cc: bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BOOT.FLP In-Reply-To: <31F64E59.70A4@alaska.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 24 Jul 1996, hmmm wrote: > problem concerns systems w/ 2 HD's. > > i have no problem on system w/ 1 HD. > > after installing 2.1.5 using the MBR, a 2 drive installation (dos on > drive one, and BSD on drive 2) results on a messed up boot prompt ... > > ie, no matter what F keys you hit, the prompt just keeps flipping around. > > F1 disk 1 > F5 BSD > > F1 BSD > F5 disk2 > > etc ... You need to boot off the boot disk again, go into the partition editor, and make sure that both of the disks' geometries are set correctly. You may also need to set a partition active. > also, Walnut Creek says the CD BSD is always better than the FTP BSD. > what is the meaning of this? if i'm interested in a long term system What they probably mean is that the CD version contains more software. Both the FTP and CD distributions are functionally the exact same, with the exact same core set of software. The CD may just include more 3rd party programs, etc. == Chris Layne ======================================== Nervosa Computing == == coredump@nervosa.vendetta.com == http://nervosa.vendetta.com/~coredump ==