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Date:      Tue, 29 Jun 1999 20:21:19 EDT
From:      Nataraj Dasgupta <xbsd@hotmail.com>
To:        Kevin_Rooney@sw.cc.va.us, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: different boot manager problem
Message-ID:  <19990630002120.1713.qmail@hotmail.com>

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>From: Kevin Rooney <Kevin_Rooney@sw.cc.va.us>
>To: "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@freebsd.org>
>Subject: different boot manager problem
>Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 09:01:09 -0400
>
>Greetings,
>	I'm working on a little side project and am experimenting with a
>486/66 with two IDE HDs on seperate IDE controller channels.  Small
>drive is wd0 and is on the primary channel along with a CD-Rom.  This
>drive has Win95 on it.  Large drive is wd2 and is on the secondary
>channel by itself.  This drive has 3.2-RELEASE on it.  I've installed
>booteasy on both drives, but no matter how I do it the boot manager
>doesn't see the second drive.  I just get 'F1... DOS' and the prompt.
>Is this because of the space (wd1) in between the drives and should I
>just put both HDs on the same IDE channel and the CD on the secondary so
>the large HD shows up second instead of third?  I'm going to try this
>when I get home tonight, but I thought I'd see what kinda info I get
>here first.  Thanks!
>


Interesting. Hmmmmm . When you installed BSD, what did you get during the 
phase of install where it asks you about preparing the BSD partitions ?

Did it indicate that wd0 was a dos partition ?

Perhaps you could run boot with a -c option and check this. that might help.

Best of Luck,


>~Kevin Rooney
>~Instructional Technologist
>~Southwest Virginia Community College
>~P.O. Box SVCC, Richlands, VA  24641
>~Kevin_Rooney@sw.cc.va.us
>~(540)964-7552
>
>
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Nataraj Dasgupta

Philip Morris Incorporated,
Network Operations Monitor/Analyst,
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Email : ndasgupt@bridgeport.edu


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