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Date:      Wed, 12 May 1999 12:40:45 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        David Kelly <David.Kelly@tbe.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: BootEasy not finding right disk on single disk system
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9905121240070.23756-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199905062054.PAA18494@PeeCee.tbe.com>

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On Thu, 6 May 1999, David Kelly wrote:

> Booted the 3.1R CD on a Gateway E-3100 P-200 system. Let sysinstall 
> delete the fat partition and create its own for FreeBSD. There are no 
> other filesystems on the drive. The only other drives are a plain old 
> floppy and ATAPI CDROM. The CDROM is on the secondary IDE interface.
> 
> At boot, BootEasy offers:
> 
> 	F1	FreeBSD
> 	F5	Drive 0
> 
> F1 beeps and redraws the above. Selecting F5 results in a menu listing 
> only:
> 
> 	F1	FreeBSD

Ah, you have this happy little problem.

If you have no other OSs on the disk, remove boot0.

I think they attributed this bug to the BIOS, but I'm not sure.

Doug White                               
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
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