Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 03:42:02 -0700 From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: BootEasy? It ain't so easy for *me*! Message-ID: <1298.874838522@monkeys.com>
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Greetings again folks. Once again I come to you in a sorry state of confusion and ask for help with yet another boot-time problem. Please extend me your forgivness is this one is already an FAQ. I suspect that it is not. Here's the deal... I just installed FreeBSD 2.2.2 onto another system here. (The other one shipped out last week and will be serving as my corporate web presence soon.) Anyway, the system I installed FreeBSD on today has --2-- SCSI disk drives on it. I installed FreebSD entirely into one of the 4 available ``fdisk'' partitions on the lower numbered SCSI drive. Suffice it to say that on the _other_ drive, there exists another operating system (in one massive partition) which I want to save and which _is_ already marked as bootable I believe. (I plan to play games with my SCSI device IDs when switching between these two operating system. Don't ask.) So anyway, getting back to the point, I successfully installed FreeBSD into one partition of the (new) lower number drive on this system. Then, at the end of the install, there is the normal reboot sequence. (Note that I had requested the FreeBSD ``BootEasy'' thingy to be installed in the MBR during my install of FreeBSD.) So the reboot happens and the first prompt I get is something that looks vaguely like: F1.....BSD F5.....second disk Default F? at which point it waits patiently for me to type in something. Well, I wanna tell you that I tried just about every contorted keystroke and combination of keystrokes and NOTHING would get me past this prompt... NOTHING! (I should say however that I did NOT try pressing the F5 key because it seemed obvious to me that that key would NOT have produced the result I wanted, i.e. booting to FreeBSD.) So what did I do wrong and how can I get the *&%$# FreeBSD that I just finished spending an hour and a half installing booted?? Thanks in advance for any help. P.S. The reason I suspect that this is not an FAQ is that I doubt that many people are in my exact situation... i.e. having two drives, with the higher numbered one also having a partition marked as bootable on it (in addition to there being a partition marked as bootable on the lower numbered drive also). -- Ron Guilmette, Roseville, California ---------- E-Scrub Technologies, Inc. -- Deadbolt(tm) Personal E-Mail Filter demo: http://www.e-scrub.com/deadbolt/ -- Wpoison (web harvester poisoning) demo: http://monkeys.com/cgi-bin/wpoison
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