Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 22:15:50 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> To: Thomas Dean <tomdean@ix.netcom.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Boot Manager says F1 ?? for WINNT Message-ID: <199906300215.WAA16297@smtp4.erols.com> In-Reply-To: <199906300202.TAA02845@ix.netcom.com>
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On 30-Jun-99 Thomas Dean wrote: > I installed -current on a notebook with WINNT on the disk. The > notebook has the ide disk limitation. So, I chopped the disk do get > around it. Maybe I should buy a new notebook, but, this one works. > > Everything worked OK, except the boot manager. I get: > > F1 ?? > F2 FreeBSD > F3 ?? > F4 FreeBSD > > Pressing F1 boots WINNT, F2 boots FreeBSD. The other partitions are > not bootable. > > The disk slices are: > 1. 400MB WINNT NTFS > 2. 120 FreeBSD /, swap, and /var > 3. 600MB WINNT NTFS > 4. 960MB FreeBSD /usr > > FDISK recognizes the partition as NTFS, etc. > > How do I get something other than ?? for F1 and lose F3 and F4? > > tomdean You could try OS-BS (available on CD 1 in the tools/ dir or via ftp at pub/FreeBSD/tools from any mirror). It's much prettier and configurable, IHMO, than BootEasy. --- John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> -- http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/ PGP Key: http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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