Date: Mon, 6 Nov 1995 14:40:32 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: watcher@winc.com (Bill DeVos) Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD bugs list) Subject: Re: bootmanager bug? Message-ID: <199511061340.OAA20436@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.ULT.3.91.951105150509.2351A-100000@home.winc.com> from "Bill DeVos" at Nov 5, 95 03:10:30 pm
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As Bill DeVos wrote: > > I have successfully installed FreeBSD on my 4th IDE hardisk, I also > had it install the bootmanager. The release is the current SNAP > release. > The problem is that I have no way of booting to my newly installed OS > because the bootmanager only shows DOS as an option. Could you inform > me of the best way to correct this problem or is it that the bootmanager > can't handle the 4th ide disk as a boot disk. Where are the > configuration files for bootmanager? Are you sure your BIOS could even boot off the 4th disk? (I'm not quite familiar with all this IDE stuff that popped up recently.) There's no such thing like a `configuration file', all the knowledge must reside inside the bootmanager itself. And note: this ain't a FreeBSD thing, we're only providing this as an aid to our users. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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