From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 27 12:58:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA24196 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 12:58:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ceia.nordier.com (m2-16-dbn.dial-up.net [196.34.155.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA24190 for ; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 12:58:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rnordier@nordier.com) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by ceia.nordier.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id WAA29837; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 22:57:38 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199811272057.WAA29837@ceia.nordier.com> Subject: Re: Bootmanager -> Bootmanager -> Bootmanager.. :-) In-Reply-To: from Johan Larsson at "Nov 27, 98 09:01:48 pm" To: gozer@ludd.luth.se (Johan Larsson) Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 22:57:36 +0200 (SAT) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Johan Larsson wrote: > Hi, i have a rather peculiar problem. The thing is that the bootmanager on > one of our computers loads a bootmanager itself (at least it seems like > it). Because first it comes up a choice of: > > F1 Freebsd > Default: F1 > > and if i press F1 the same screen comes up again but now the default > choice if F?. > > I have reinstalled the computer a few times with different configuration > on the partitions but with no luck. I have also reinstalled the bootstrap > code (disklabel -B da0 (right?)), both in /stand/sysinstall and manually. As you're using slices, the disklabel command needs a slice argument: eg. da0s1 rather than da0. It seems you may have a second copy of the boot manager installed where the boot blocks should be. If the proper disklabel command doesn't fix this, take a look at the fdisk(8) output for the disk and verify that the slice starts in the correct location: typically cyl=0 head=1 sector=1. -- Robert Nordier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message