From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 1 11:51:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3879D37B41F for ; Mon, 1 Apr 2002 11:51:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1309BDB4; Mon, 1 Apr 2002 11:51:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA11404; Mon, 1 Apr 2002 11:51:06 -0800 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g31JnFX69541; Mon, 1 Apr 2002 11:49:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: "Patrick O'Reilly" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD Boot Manager References: <02040117292900.00446@getafix.perimeter.co.za> From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 01 Apr 2002 11:49:15 -0800 In-Reply-To: <02040117292900.00446@getafix.perimeter.co.za> Message-ID: Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Patrick O'Reilly" writes: > Now, whatever I select (F1 or F5), it the proceeds to boot FreeBSD off > the new disk. I'm just guessing here, as I've never seen that problem or used a BIOS with that feature, but I suspect that it has somehow confused the FreeBSD installer so that it has the same disk number for both F1 and F5 (obviously, I suppose). You can probably fix it by getting the FreeBSD running and using "boot0cfg" which allows you to set the disk IDs explicitly. I never know exactly what values to use, and you'll be even more in the dark with that BIOS feature, but you could try the numbers suggested by the "boot0cfg" manual and then try them swapped. If you first try doesn't work, you BIOS feature will probably save you, or you can boot using the normal install floppies. (Learn the commands for booting first.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message