Date: Tue, 13 Jun 95 12:06:31 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: hlew@cycle.Stanford.EDU, bugs@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 2.05R panics on boot Message-ID: <9506131806.AA03697@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <199506130710.QAA24206@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Jun 13, 95 04:40:39 pm
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> > * If I use Ontrack DM 6.03a and set the DOS partition active (I don't > > know why it became inactive), the system prompts for F1-Disk 1 and > > F5-Disk 2. But at that prompt, if I choose F1, I get DOS. And if I > > choose F5, I also get DOS (so they are still booting from wd0 which is my > > DOS drive). > > This smells _awfully_ like you have DM coming in too early and trying to > be "smart". Well, it's allowed to do that. It *is* smart. 8^). What it sounds more like is the boot manager being written on top of DM instead of being smart (like *it* should) and getting written to the secondary MBR that DM causes to exist following it. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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