Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 20:02:09 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Rick Knebel <rknebel@csrlink.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: upgrade question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971117200134.11546G-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <19971117084105.13183@localhost.localdomain>
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On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Rick Knebel wrote: > Hi, > I have just upgraded from 2.2.2 to 2.2.5 with the help of some people from > this list without difficulty. One stange thing happened though and I was > curious if anyone had any ideas. > I have two hard drives. > #1 has OS2 and linux aand number 2 has freebsd. > I use the os2 boot manager to boot my different OS's. > When I was done with the upgrade it told me to remove the floopy and then > reboot. When I did this it would go through my typical boot process but then > right before boot manager would come up, I would get a prompt that said > press any key to reboot. > I had to use my os2 bootup disc and what solved the problem was reinstalling > os2 boot manager. > Everything worked fine after that. > Can anyone think of a reason why this upgrade should give me this problem > when boot manager is not on the same disc as freebsd. The active partition bit may have been reset and something wasn't happy. If you had the OS/2 manager already installed, you didn't need to install a new one. You overwrote it anyway so that was the correct thing to do. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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