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Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 17:22:30 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: Not being able to restore the Boot-Easy Manager
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On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Gunnar Flygt wrote:

> This is starting to be boring. Now I've followed all the hints there are
> to reinstall my dualboot. I've used /stand/sysinstall, started with
> install floppy, and used the DOS-version bootinst.exe boot.whatever it
> was
> 
> It is still impossible to get my FreeBSD part of the disk to boot. I see
> the:
> 
> F1 dos
> F2 BSD
> 
> indicator. When I use F1 it boots with NT, but when I press F2 i get a
> F? in return. Nothing more happens. Any suggestions? Will I have to kill
> the FreeBSD partition and make a reinstall?

That's the usual solution.  your geometry information is incorrect.

> NT. The sad thing I have put so much work into the FreeBSD part to
> make it nice working with. It's an upgrade from
> 2.2.2->2.2.5->2.2.6->2.2.7 so I've got quite used to it.

Try OS-BS; it's not as braindead as Booteasy is.

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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