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Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 09:17:31 -0500
From: "Daniel M. Eischen" <deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org>
To: ejon@ll.mit.edu, questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bootmanager problems
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>>Well now, that was fun.  Did a reboot and when the BootEasy menu came up I
>>chose F5 (which was not on the list, as you said).  I then heard rather
>>unpleasant clicking sounds come from what I assume was the second hard disk.
>>Then I got a message saying there was an error with the operating system and
>>the system froze.  Only option then was to reboot and choose F1.
>
>I'm afraid we may be earning the wages of sin for having bought IDE-based
>systems.  There is something bogus about the way ATAPI CDROM's work (at
>least mine).  When I disconnect the CDROM from the IDE cable, my system
>boots like a dream...even sees my 2nd IDE controller.
>  So.  We've narrowed the problem down to 1) Booteasy not correctly loading
>the 2ndary (?) boot code, or 2) the secondary boot code not working
>properly, in the presence of HD+CDROM on 2nd IDE controller.  Any boot
>gurus out there that can help us?

I have this problem also and I do not have _any_ IDE devices - I'm all
SCSI.

This use to work in earlier release; I think I recall it working in
2.0.5 and previous.  I just noticed it didn't work recently when I added
a third hard disk.  The booteasy menu on the first disk correctly lists
my Linux and FreeBSD installations, but does not show F5 for switching
to the second disk.  Pressing F5 will take me to the second disk, though.
On the second disk, I can only go back to the first disk; F5 does not
get listed, nor does it take me to the third disk.

If it helps, I used the 2.0.5-950622-SNAP boot floppy and installation
files when I installed FreBSD on my third disk.

Dan Eischen
deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org