Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:51:04 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Brian Handy <handy@sag.space.lockheed.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MBR Woes Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971222225020.7705E-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.96.971217190140.19866X-100000@sag.space.lockheed.com>
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On Wed, 17 Dec 1997, Brian Handy wrote: > ARrghgh...I just installed FBSD on a new box, and I made the disk > "dangerously dedicated." This in and of itself was fine, but I didn't > make it bootable. > > Then I went in with sysinstall and flipped the boot flag and wrote it out, > wondering if that would do it. It did, but in the process I got booteasy > installed as well. > > NOW, what happens is I get "F1 . . . BSD", but hitting F1 gets me > nowhere. > > Is there a quick way out of this conundrum, or am I going to have to blast > the disk to get around this? Oops. I don't think that booteasy is supposed to fit onto a dangerously dedicated disk. I didn't try it. :-/ Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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