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Date:      Tue, 15 Sep 1998 17:22:30 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        flygt@sr.se
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Not being able to restore the Boot-Easy Manager
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9809151721570.19769-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19980915225757.A1206@sr.se>

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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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