From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 20 08:28:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA14902 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 20 Jan 1998 08:28:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from iron.singnet.com.sg (iron.singnet.com.sg [165.21.7.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA14892 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 1998 08:28:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shuman@annexgrp.org) Received: from thing.annexgrp.org (root@ntbill.citechco.net [203.127.137.2]) by iron.singnet.com.sg (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA05302; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 00:28:07 +0800 (SGT) Received: from localhost (shuman@localhost) by thing.annexgrp.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id WAA09781; Tue, 20 Jan 1998 22:09:09 +0600 Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 22:09:08 +0600 (BGT) From: M Shariful Anam To: Rudy Gireyev cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: booting off the HD/boot manager In-Reply-To: <19980120023554.18568.rocketmail@send1b.yahoomail.com> Message-ID: Organization: Annex Group (Bangladesh) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Rudy Gireyev wrote: | I'm assuming you are using the boot manager that came with FreeBSD, | booteasy, Ok, I installed booteasy on my boot drive (primary master). But at boot time, it only prompts with "F1 DOS". How do I add the FreeBSD partition to this menu (which is on my 2ndary master, 3rd partition)? | if so you must install it on both hard drives. | One way to accomplish that is simply by using sysinstall. i did a few partition arrangements on my primary master (using Partition Magic), and now from the boot floppy, if I enter "2:wd(2,a)kernel)" it simply reboots! Used to work before! Any hint here? Thanx. --- M Shariful Anam Annex Group, Bangladesh We hack to learn!