From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 14 3:31:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.camelot.de (robin.camelot.de [195.30.224.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83AE837B738 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 03:31:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bofax@camelot.de) Received: from robin.camelot.de (bofax@robin.camelot.de [195.30.224.3]) by mail.camelot.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA79704 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 12:31:43 +0100 (CET) Received: (from bofax@localhost) by robin.camelot.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA79698 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 12:31:43 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 12:31:10 +0100 From: Florian Bofinger To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: freebsd-questions@camelot.de Subject: Re: Boot easy problem Message-ID: <20000314123110.A78009@camelot.de> Mail-Followup-To: Sheldon Hearn , freebsd-questions@camelot.de References: <97156.953029654@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <97156.953029654@axl.ops.uunet.co.za>; from sheldonh@uunet.co.za on Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 12:27:34PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 12:27:34PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > On Sun, 12 Mar 2000 16:55:33 +0100, Sverrir Valgeirsson wrote: > > > F1 DOS > > F5 Drive 1 > > > > F1 starts windows, but F5 doesn't do anything. > > How can I have it recognize my two freebsd disks? > > Here's some untested advice you may want to try. > > First, make a backup of /etc/fstab. > > >From sysinstall's "Custom" menu, choose "2 Partition". You'll be > presented with a menu of drives. Select each one in turn. Each time > you select a drive, you'll be taken to the FDISK Partition Editor. You > should be able to quit out of it each time by pressing "Q". Each time > you quit, you'll be presented with a boot manager selection window. You > should be able to select "BootMgr" the first time, whereafter sysinstall > will "remember" that this is what you want. > > Once you've selected all the drives in the list, select "OK". You'll be > taken back top the "Custom" menu. Now choose "6 Commit". So long as > you didn't do anything silly in the FDISK Partition Editor windows, > sysinstall shouldn't fiddle with your existing filesystems, but it > _should_ install the boot manager correctly. > > Again, this is _untested_ advice. :-) Why not just call boot0cfg? But i think a missing bootmanager isn't the Problem. By pressing F5, the bootmanager looks for another bootmanager on Drive 1, which seems to be the CDRom in this case.. So, put a bootmanager on a cdrom and try again ;) BoFax -- Florian Bofinger www.camelot.de - Der "sagenhafte" Internet Full-Service Provider 'Can't buy what I want because it's free' - Pearl Jam (FreeBSD rocks) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message