From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 14 2:28: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from axl.ops.uunet.co.za (axl.ops.uunet.co.za [196.31.1.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92C3937B745 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 02:27:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sheldonh@axl.ops.uunet.co.za) Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.ops.uunet.co.za) by axl.ops.uunet.co.za with local-esmtp (Exim 3.13 #1) id 12UoY2-000PH3-00; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 12:27:34 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: Sverrir Valgeirsson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot easy problem In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 12 Mar 2000 16:55:33 +0100." Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 12:27:34 +0200 Message-ID: <97156.953029654@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 12 Mar 2000 16:55:33 +0100, Sverrir Valgeirsson wrote: > F1 DOS > F5 Drive 1 > > F1 starts windows, but F5 doesn't do anything. > How can I have it recognize my two freebsd disks? Here's some untested advice you may want to try. First, make a backup of /etc/fstab. From sysinstall's "Custom" menu, choose "2 Partition". You'll be presented with a menu of drives. Select each one in turn. Each time you select a drive, you'll be taken to the FDISK Partition Editor. You should be able to quit out of it each time by pressing "Q". Each time you quit, you'll be presented with a boot manager selection window. You should be able to select "BootMgr" the first time, whereafter sysinstall will "remember" that this is what you want. Once you've selected all the drives in the list, select "OK". You'll be taken back top the "Custom" menu. Now choose "6 Commit". So long as you didn't do anything silly in the FDISK Partition Editor windows, sysinstall shouldn't fiddle with your existing filesystems, but it _should_ install the boot manager correctly. Again, this is _untested_ advice. :-) Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message