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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Lord GoViL wrote:

> I installed FreeBSD, which took half the day from your Ftp site :)
> & I thought I set up the Boot manager, but when it boots up it tells me
> something about no boot disk. what can I do to get the boot manager to
> install itself? Thanks.

Booteasy must be installed on the first disk in the system.  You can fetch
boot.bin and bootinst.exe from where you got FreeBSD (in tools/) and run
it on your first disk.  Don't do this if you have OnTrack or some
translation software running.

Also, run FDISK and reset the active flag to a partition on your first
disk.

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