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Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 15:56:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@kryten.Atinc.COM>
Subject: Re: Bootmgr gives me only DOS option.
To: Evan Polster <evan@probita.com>
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On Wed, 19 Jul 1995, Evan Polster wrote:

>    After "commiting" the install process a boot mgr selection screen
>  is displayed. I choose the first option: BootMgr (booteasy). Shouldn't
>  this install booteasy as you recommended?

	you can always boot dos, install booteasy by hand to the second disk

	a possibly confusing part of the install is the <space> to select 
vs <enter> to leave the screen and go on.   (i usually read the screen 
twice because of this.)

	it looks to me that the boot manager did not get installed on the 
third disk.  (the second scsi disk)  you can test this by 

	changing the setup to no ide disks
	opening the computer, removing the ide cable from the ide drive
	removing the scsi cable from the first scsi drive
	and reboot.

	if the boot manager does not show its prompt, it is not installed.

>    Isn't there a way to modify the bootmgr without going through the
>  install? All I want to do is tell it to have a second option which 
>  is FreeBSD and tell it where to look for the FreeBSD boot area.
> 
>  TIA,
> 
>  Evan Polster
>  Probita Inc.
>  evan@probita.com
> 
> 

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