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From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il>
To: John Yingling <jyingling@ppc-inc.com>
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Subject: Re: Booting
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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