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Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 09:27:52 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: gw <gw@cyber-coupon.com>
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Subject: Re: bootmanager goes into a loop
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On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, gw wrote:

> Got freebsd reinstalled.  over existing hosed username and password.

Ouch :(

> now bootmanager seems to loop over screen.
> 
> f1...dos
> f5...disk2
> 
> default f1
> 
> 
> f1disk1
> f2disk2
> 
> default
> 
> and so forth.
> 
> should I just delete freebsd and start again?

Unfortunately, it appears so.  Booteasy will do this if the geometry on
the second disk is wrong.  Try reinstalling, but this time put a small
DOS partition on the disk and delete it with sysinstall and put FreeBSD
over it.

> Where does the boot manager reside?

In the boot sector.  You can clear it with the DOS command:

fdisk /mbr

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