From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 21 21:54:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E221A1512D for ; Mon, 21 Jun 1999 21:54:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id AAA09518; Tue, 22 Jun 1999 00:55:52 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199906220455.AAA09518@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: Install problems - BIOS? In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990621171421.0084c3e0@pop3.clark.net> from Mark Thomas at "Jun 21, 99 05:14:21 pm" To: thomas@clark.net (Mark Thomas) Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 00:55:52 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mark Thomas wrote, > > [History below] > > I now have this system booting, but it still has a problem. I ended up with > BIOS translation ON both in the system BIOS and the SCSI BIOS. The drive is > set up with a partition rather than dedicated. The boot manager starts, and > presents two options: > > F1 FreeBSD > F5 Drive 0 > > Default: F1 > > Hitting F1 appears to try to boot of the floppy drive. > Hitting F5 results in display of: > > F1 FreeBSD > > Default: F1 > > Followed by a normal boot on either timeout or F1. [snip] This problem has been reported a number of times. See the very recent thread, 'boot manager acting strangely,' and one from a few weeks ago, 'Odd Boot Menu,' in the -questions archives. However, I must add that there has not been a clear resolution of these issues. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message