Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 17:11:44 +0200 (IST) From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> To: John Yingling <jyingling@ppc-inc.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970307170947.2884A-100000@gatekeeper.barcode.co.il> In-Reply-To: <199703061605.LAA20855@skye2.skyenet.net>
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On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, John Yingling wrote: > > > ---------- > > From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> > > To: John Yingling <jyingling@skyenet.net> > > Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org > > Subject: Re: Booting > > Date: Thursday, March 06, 1997 2:52 AM > > > Nadav, > > Yes, I am using IDE drives. 1 primary(host) with dos partitions and 1 > secondary(slave) with a dos and a BSD partition. I am trying to use > BootEasy. > > All drives and partitions were set up as DOS, then during BSD install I > deleted the second partition on the slave drive and recreated it as a BSD > partition. (I have also tried setting up the drives using Fips). > > I have tried doing the things you suggest but when I allow BSD to setup > BootEasy automaticly nothing will happen when I press any of the listed > function keys. It creates functions keys like F1 - ??, F2 - ??, F5 - disk > 2. I have also tried using Bootinst.exe but that did not work either. > First, I've CC'ed the questions list, so that anyone else trying to help you will be able to use that info. Second, it seems like a geometry problem. What is the geometry of your disk (as the BIOS think it is and as the boot floppy thinks it is)? I'm sorry, but I don't know about geometry problems (never had one :-). I hope other people will be able to help you better. > > John Nadav
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