Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 14:43:06 -0800 (PST) From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Mailing List) Subject: Last Chance: BootEasy Message-ID: <199804012243.OAA09255@tao.thought.org>
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This problem has been bothering me for some weeks; it's fairly involved, but I'll give it a shot here and see if anybody has ideas. On my new 6x86 box I have Debian on my first SCSI drivve; FreeBSD is rooted on my second SCSI. For unknown reasons the BIOS on my IWILL motherboard only sees LUN #1, my FBSD drive. So FBSD boots by default. In order to boot the Debian installation, I've got to use the Debian boot floppy. I've installed LILO; but no-joy. Nothing that I do to the BIOS setup or the (builtin) Adaptec setup causes the board to default to see drive 0. Since FreeBSD boots by default it occured to me that maybe the BSD loader will work. I did not install it with my 2.2.5 installation. Right now when I boot, after much miscellany, FreeBSD prompts me with: F1 BSD F2 BSD F3 BSD F4 BSD and FreeBSD boots regardless of what I select. My questions: Is there a way of using Booteasy to select my Debian OS on my first drive? Is it smart enough to detect a non-BSD systemm? Are there any config files to plug in? And, lastly, if Booteasy screws things up, how do I remove it!? thanks, people, gary -- Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public service uNix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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