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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: ScottMorris <smorri59@icubed.net>
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Subject: Re: Multiple disk install w/bootmanager 
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On Mon, 18 Nov 1996, ScottMorris wrote:

> >>Then go on to wd1 and lay it out for FreeBSD.
> >
> >        When the partition is laid out for wd1 it throws me back to the
> bootmanager screen and no matter what selection I make (I have tried every
> combination) the boot manager is not installed onto c where it belongs.... I
> am prepared to boot from the floppy if necessary, to get this up. Is there
> another procedure I can use or is the infinate bootmanager loop a bug.

If you can't get at booteasy, then grab bootinst.exe and boot.bin from the
/tools directory from ftp.freebsd.org or from the CDROM and run it on your
first disk.  YOu'll need to boot from DOS 6.x if you're using Win95 to
so you can write to the bootblocks.  That should fix that problem.

If booteasy loops forever still, then the geometry on your FreeBSD disk is
wrong.  Try reinstalling, but this time put a small DOS partition on the
disk, then delete it and put FreeBSD over it in the install fdisk editor.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major