From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 14 5:48:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta1-svc.virgin.net (mta1-gui.server.ntli.net [194.168.54.142]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E499714F80 for ; Sun, 14 Mar 1999 05:47:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from michael.cugley@virgin.net) Received: from mike-s-box ([194.168.63.80]) by mta1-svc.virgin.net (InterMail v4.00.03.01 201-229-104-101) with SMTP id <19990314134726.XLCG26310.mta1-svc@mike-s-box> for ; Sun, 14 Mar 1999 13:47:26 +0000 Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990314134710.007cc8c0@mail.virgin.net> X-Sender: michael.cugley@mail.virgin.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 13:47:10 +0000 To: questions@freebsd.org From: Michael Cugley Subject: Boot Manager woes. 3.1-R (2.2.5 boot manager) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I originally installed 2.2.5-R from CDROMs I had available, with Wind 95 on Primary Master and Primary Slave, FreeBSD on Secondary Master. The boot manager never worked; probably 'cos my Win95 disks were FAT32. I then started from scratch and d/l'd 3.1-R, and installed (eventually). I foolishly didn't install a boot manager on my Primary Master, thinking the old one (which I never uninstalled) would now work. Boy was I wrong! It still just gives me the F1? prompt. So; I want to one of two things: * install a proper boot manager on the relevant disks without having to wipe any data (/stand/sysinstall seems to want to do that before it installs any boot managers); * or, create a dedicated boot disk that will boot up wd(2,a)kernel for me. I've got a broken fixdisk that allows me to type in wd(2,a)kernel each time, which is *such* a pain :) Want one that does it for me :) Ideas? Suggestions? Money? (Well, I can hope... ) -- Mike Cugley, lunatic at large http://freespace.virgin.net/michael.cugley/ http://freespace.virgin.net/michael.cugley/Art/ Mike's Doom Quake - http://www.crosswinds.net/dundee/~korvar/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message