Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 19:59:28 +0100 From: Andreas Ziethén <pry@crosswinds.net> To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@aa.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem booting into FreeBSD Message-ID: <3B742F10.35A7@crosswinds.net> References: <3B738CFA.6848@crosswinds.net> <mj1ymjn7ru.ymj@localhost.localdomain>
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> I can't address what you've tried as I'm unfamiliar with that software. > (I'm supprised that the DDO for the second disk is on the first disk.) > > The FreeBSD distribution comes with floppies/fixit.flp which you can > put on a floppy (byte-by-byte copy however you do that; rawwrite?) > and then boot off. At the prompt you enter the system you want to > reboot off; the prompt should give you a sufficient clue and, IIRC, > there's a "help" or "?" command (or consult the handbook first). Ok, I'll try that, hopefully it will be easier than the workaroundd I foundm which was to use fdisk to change the active partition every time I wanted to switch OS. Thanks. /Andreas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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