Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 00:55:52 -0400 (EDT) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: thomas@clark.net (Mark Thomas) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install problems - BIOS? Message-ID: <199906220455.AAA09518@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990621171421.0084c3e0@pop3.clark.net> from Mark Thomas at "Jun 21, 99 05:14:21 pm"
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Mark Thomas wrote, > > [History below] > > I now have this system booting, but it still has a problem. I ended up with > BIOS translation ON both in the system BIOS and the SCSI BIOS. The drive is > set up with a partition rather than dedicated. The boot manager starts, and > presents two options: > > F1 FreeBSD > F5 Drive 0 > > Default: F1 > > Hitting F1 appears to try to boot of the floppy drive. > Hitting F5 results in display of: > > F1 FreeBSD > > Default: F1 > > Followed by a normal boot on either timeout or F1. [snip] This problem has been reported a number of times. See the very recent thread, 'boot manager acting strangely,' and one from a few weeks ago, 'Odd Boot Menu,' in the -questions archives. However, I must add that there has not been a clear resolution of these issues. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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