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Date:      Fri, 12 Sep 1997 20:44:16 +0200
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        ron@cts.com
Subject:   Re: dumb installation
Message-ID:  <19970912204416.UX06342@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.970911155947.ron@cts.com>; from ron@cts.com on Sep 11, 1997 15:34:23 -0700
References:  <XFMail.970911155947.ron@cts.com>

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As ron@cts.com wrote:

> In an effort to be totally free of MicroSoft corruption, I did not provide
> a dos partition on my nice new 4GB SCSI drive. Well, certainly outsmarted
> myself there. After installing BootEasy, I get an endless F? prompt no matter
> which function key I depress. Well and good; I can boot with the boot floppy.

Typical geometry problem.  RTFAQ.

``Dangerously dedicated'' mode would have avoided your problem.  See
the most recent version of the FAQ (on the www site), i've recently
committed a FAQ entry for this.

-- 
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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