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Subject: Re: You're in a maze of twisty little boots...
To: joe@ns.via.net (Joe McGuckin)
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 15:42:15 +0930 (CST)
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In-Reply-To: <199507190533.WAA16896@ns.via.net> from "Joe McGuckin" at Jul 18, 95 10:33:20 pm
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Joe McGuckin stands accused of saying:
> The first boot program asks me to choose F1 for dos 
> or F5 for FreeBSD. 

Hmm, is it F5 for FreeBSD, or F5 for disk 2?  The latter I'm familiar with,
the former not.

> After selecting F5 I am once again asked to choose a function key: this time
> it F1 for FreeBSD, F2 for FreeBSD, F3 for FreeBSD, F5 for dos...
> 
> Well, you get the picture.
> 
> How do I fix this? Obviously I can boot using the boot pgm on the floppy, but
> THEN what?  

It looks like you wrote the bootmanage to the second disk; this shouldn't be
a drama, pressing F1 at the second prompt should boot FreeBSD.  If not, then
something kooky is happening. 

> I assume that I need to write the boot program out to the FreeBSD boot disk.
> 
> What is the EXACT command I need to use? I've tried various 'disklabel' 
> commands without success.

Hmm.  This is actually an MBR thing, not a disklabel thing per se.
IIRC, disklabel -r -B <disk> should do the trick; your ultimate goal is to
end up with the "normal" bootcode on the disk, presuming that all
youi have on your second disk is FreeBSD.

>   Joe

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