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Date:      Mon, 16 Jul 2001 20:42:31 +0200
From:      Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de>
To:        Chris Lott <chrisl@thethirdsector.com>
Cc:        "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: BootEasy problem
Message-ID:  <3B533597.860F1E1E@i-clue.de>
References:  <70CDD1EE3A2CD511993900104B0A30A201A76D@infinity.thethirdsector.com>

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Chris Lott schrieb:
> 
> I recently moved to a larger hard drive on my FreeBSD 3.2-release system.
> While doing so, I had both the old and new drives on the IDE controller to
> copy information from one to the other. Now that I am done, BootEasy acts as
> if there are two drives, giving me options:
> F1 FreeBSD
> F5 Drive 0
> 
> I can't choose F1 no matter what I do. But if I choose F5, it beeps and the
> menu comes back with just one option (F1 FreeBSD) which I then CAN boot.

Swap both drives. The first menu is from disk 0 (ATA Master 0), which no
longer holds a bootable partition. The second menu is from disk 1 (ATA
slave 0 or ATA master 1) holding your current system.

HTH
-Christoph Sold

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