From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jun 29 19:16: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from smtp4.erols.com (smtp4.erols.com [207.172.3.237]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D30E414E13 for ; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 19:15:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jobaldwi@vt.edu) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (207-172-143-157.s30.as2.hgt.md.dialup.rcn.com [207.172.143.157]) by smtp4.erols.com (8.8.8/smtp-v1) with ESMTP id WAA16297; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 22:15:51 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199906300215.WAA16297@smtp4.erols.com> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199906300202.TAA02845@ix.netcom.com> Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 22:15:50 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Thomas Dean Subject: RE: Boot Manager says F1 ?? for WINNT Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 30-Jun-99 Thomas Dean wrote: > I installed -current on a notebook with WINNT on the disk. The > notebook has the ide disk limitation. So, I chopped the disk do get > around it. Maybe I should buy a new notebook, but, this one works. > > Everything worked OK, except the boot manager. I get: > > F1 ?? > F2 FreeBSD > F3 ?? > F4 FreeBSD > > Pressing F1 boots WINNT, F2 boots FreeBSD. The other partitions are > not bootable. > > The disk slices are: > 1. 400MB WINNT NTFS > 2. 120 FreeBSD /, swap, and /var > 3. 600MB WINNT NTFS > 4. 960MB FreeBSD /usr > > FDISK recognizes the partition as NTFS, etc. > > How do I get something other than ?? for F1 and lose F3 and F4? > > tomdean You could try OS-BS (available on CD 1 in the tools/ dir or via ftp at pub/FreeBSD/tools from any mirror). It's much prettier and configurable, IHMO, than BootEasy. --- John Baldwin -- http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/ PGP Key: http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message