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 http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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