Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 22:03:34 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: JOSHUA PAUL VERMETTE <funkjosh@uclink4.berkeley.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bootloader Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970203220148.13156C-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <32F3E1AA.6AD4@uclink4.berkeley.edu>
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On Sat, 1 Feb 1997, JOSHUA PAUL VERMETTE wrote: > I currently have BSD on my 400M master and linux on my 2.5G slave, and > am running the BSD bootloader. Why does it have options for both BSD > and linux (linux through the "other disk" option), but will only > recognize the F key that corresponds to BSD? (another symptom is that > it seems to be reading F2 and F3 as F4, and not reading F1 at all. This generally indicates that your disk geometry in the disk partition talbe is incorrect. AFAIK Booteasy should boot both systems fine. You might try installing OS-BS from /tools, or look into the commercial System Commander or for the total solution, Partition Magic 3.0. > In case it matters, the 2.5G HD is a Maxtor 72700AP (with 5248 > cylinders, which is why I can't install the Linux bootloader at all) and > my computer is a Gateway (with the programmable keyboard). We had the programmable keyboards in a lab once. Really bad idea. You can guess the first thing that we had to reset once everyone figured out how to use the 'remap' key. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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