From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 17 13:55:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA19399 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 13:55:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from axp5.physik.fu-berlin.de (axp5.fddi5B.fu-berlin.de [160.45.5.75]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA19388 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 13:55:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mordillo (lislip.physik.fu-berlin.de [160.45.33.82]) by axp5.physik.fu-berlin.de (8.7.1/8.7.1) with ESMTP id WAA10997 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 22:33:26 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from graichen@localhost) by mordillo (8.6.12/8.6.12) id WAA04333 for questions@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 22:19:12 +0200 From: Thomas Graichen Message-Id: <199607172019.WAA04333@mordillo> Subject: booteasy To: questions@FreeBSD.org Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 22:19:12 +0200 (MET DST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk i'm trying to get OpenBSD booted from my second ide disk - on the first is FreeBSD with booteasy installed - it also says fine: F1: BSD F2: disk2 but after pressing F2 i get the same menu - i know i had the same problem with NetBSD some time ago and got it somehoe working - but can't remember how - can anybody tell me a bit more about how booteasy works ? i think all trivial things are ok: * wd1 is < 540 mb * wd1 is in the bios * wd1 has a correct fdisk entry (made again with the FreeBSD fdisk) * the OpenBSD (the only one) partition ismarked active * it has a correct OpenBSD bootblock on it * there's no booteasy on that second disk (resulting in ping pong between the two booteasy's) * the OpenBSD partition is the full disk any ideas ? - thanks in advance t p.s.: how about making it possible to boot each of the *BSD's with the other bootloaders - i can boot FreeBSD with the NetBSD (1.1) one - but not vice versa - Open- and FreeBSD are both not bootable by the other block - i think there can't be much of a difference in them -- thomas graichen graichen@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de graichen@FreeBSD.org perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away antoine de saint-exupery