From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 17 18:48:44 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA24121 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 17 Dec 1995 18:48:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.barrnet.net (mail.barrnet.net [131.119.246.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA24113 for ; Sun, 17 Dec 1995 18:48:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from alpha.xerox.com (alpha.Xerox.COM [13.1.64.93]) by mail.barrnet.net (8.7.1/MAIL-RELAY-LEN) with SMTP id JAA09583 for ; Tue, 12 Dec 1995 09:19:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from gemini.sdsp.mc.xerox.com ([13.231.132.20]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <15126(6)>; Tue, 12 Dec 1995 09:04:56 PST Received: from gnu.mc.xerox.com (gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com) by gemini.sdsp.mc.xerox.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA06710; Tue, 12 Dec 95 12:04:52 EST Received: by gnu.mc.xerox.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA15266; Tue, 12 Dec 95 12:04:50 EST Message-Id: <9512121704.AA15266@gnu.mc.xerox.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.4 10/10/95 To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: David Kirchner , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Boot problems (was Re: Western Digital boot failures ) In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 08 Dec 1995 13:18:05 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1995 09:04:49 PST From: "Marty Leisner" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > > When I use the booteasy option, I keep hitting F1 over and over, > > nothing ever happens other than repeating the "BSD F?" banner. > > As a note, booteasy will not start FreeBSD off the second disk without > some reprogramming. You can use OS-BS or any other boot manager if you > need to boot off the second disk. (I use OS/2's Boot Manager and it > works great.) > > Hmmm..this hasppened to me (what I do is boot of a slice on the first disk, and mount a much larger slice from the second disk... But I'd like to do aware with the first disk slice... What reprogramming is necessary for booteasy to start from the second disk? Also fbsdboot doesn't like booting from the second disk... (the bootfloppy or entering it in the boot prompt from the first disk slice has no problem booting from the second disk). What is OS-BS? -- marty leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com Member of the League for Programming Freedom