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To: Georgi Hristov <tweaky_81@yahoo.com>
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Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 13:36:06 +0200
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Georgi Hristov <tweaky_81@yahoo.com> writes:
> When I boot my system it does not boot automatically,
> but instead presents me with a choice of FreeBSD and
> Disk1 .... i don't have anything bootable on disk1 ..
> that's my home directory ... I just don't get it ...
> why does it do this ...it did not use to do it with
> 4.7 but now after the upgrade [I did a fresh install]
> it presents me with this option.... 

You selected "BootMgr" instead of "Standard" during installation.

> This is kind of a problem to me, because I cannot
> restart the system over the network, since it waits on
> somebody to push F1 [for FreeBSD] or F5[for Disc1].

It should automatically boot from the last-used disk after a few
seconds.  You can adjust the timeout with boot0cfg(8), or install a
"standard" MBR with fdisk(8).

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org