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From: Jarungwit BOONPERM <bjarungw@bunga.pn.psu.ac.th>
To: David Schultz <vvortex1@home.com>
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Subject: Re: Problem about FreeBSD-4.2.
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Dear David,
   Sorry to distrub you again and again.
   I still have problem. When I installed FreeBSD-4.2 on "HP Netserver
e60 intel PentitiumIII 550Mhz" it has message below when I reboot
system.
        F1   FreeBSD
        F5   Drive 1
        Default: F1

  I don't to show this messages.
  But when install on another PC (HP Vectra VL 166), this messages
not occur.
  Boths machines I select same option when I installed that show
below.
        custom install
        (*) None Leave the Master Boot Record untouched
        Distributions ---> 8 User

  About "HP NetServer e60 intel PentitiumIII 550Mhz" I ever installed
FreeBSD-4.1.1 before I installed FreeBSD-4.2 on last December 2000.
  When I try to press "F5", it shows messages below.
		Invalid partition
		No /boot/loader

  Do you have anything to advice me again ?
		Thank you very much.
		    regards,
		   Jarungwit.

On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, David Schultz wrote:

> >    But when reboot computer It show message below.
> > F1   FreeBSD
> > F5   Drive 1
> > Default: F1
>
> If the Boot Manager is, in fact, being installed, then the problem most
> likely is not with FreeBSD. (Nevertheless, it is not possible to install the
> boot manager by selecting a "Standard" boot record during installation
> unless 4.2 has some bizarre bug that I'm not aware of.)
>
> I assume that you have some other operating system that you're trying to
> boot on your first hard drive and it isn't showing up. First of all, I
> should note that if the OS is on a different hard drive, you need to press
> F5 to see it. The OS also needs to be on a visible, bootable partition as
> well, and I'm pretty sure that FreeBSD's boot manager does not support OS's
> in extended partitions. Unless you have more than four operating systems on
> your computer, this should not be an issue.
>
> If you do have some odd setup like an extended partition, you may need a
> more advanced boot manager. I personally like Ranish Partition Manager
> [http://www.users.intercom.com/~ranish/part/]. The source would need much
> modification to work under FreeBSD, so you will need a bootable DOS diskette
> to install it. Partition Magic also comes with a good (albeit non-free) boot
> manager, but it requires Windows to install and a DOS partition to hold its
> massive, clunky GUI.
>
>
>
>










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