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Date:      Sun, 7 Feb 1999 12:12:22 +0200 (SAT)
From:      Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com>
To:        tarkhil@asteroid.svib.ru
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Dedicated disk and boot manager
Message-ID:  <199902071012.MAA09163@ceia.nordier.com>
In-Reply-To: <199902070931.MAA25895@shuttle.svib.ru> from Alex Povolotsky at "Feb 7, 99 12:31:42 pm"

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Alex Povolotsky wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> I've installed 3.0-STABLE, partitioning disk as "dedicated", and have some 
> troubles with boot manager.
> 
> When the disk is second IDE, boot manager (the FreeBSD's BootEasy) doesn't prompt me 
> for second disk. When it is first, all attempts to install BootEasy on it 
> didn't result in anything working :-(
> 
> What could I have done wrong?

By "dedicated", I assume you mean what FreeBSD calls "dangerously
dedicated".  This way of doing things simply does not work with boot
managers.  What does fdisk(8) report about the disk?

-- 
Robert Nordier

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