From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 22 22:51:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA13177 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:51:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts7-line16.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA13151 for ; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:51:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA08011; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:51:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:51:04 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Brian Handy cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MBR Woes In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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