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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: MBR problems :( Date: 18 Jan 1995 01:24:05 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 25 Message-ID: <3fhqjl$cr7@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <D2IGFx.H8z@serval.net.wsu.edu> <3ff1rs$mq9@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <3ff1rs$mq9@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>, Bill Paul <wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu> wrote: +Daring to challenge the will of the almighty Leviam00se, +Charles E. Youse (cyouse@axposf.pa.dec.com) had the courage to say: + +: I feel like a dolt. + +Just wait: it'll get worse. +... +However, immediately after you've installed it for the first time, the +'saved selection from the last boot' hasn't been initialized yet, so you +have to choose something manually or it'll cycle forever. + +So press F1 already!!! + +Sheesh. Actually, you may have done the poor man a disservice.. BOOTEASY also has another failure mode that crops up when the geometry used in installing FreeBSD was bogus - you can hit F1 until the cows come home and it'll just loop back when it can't find FreeBSD's secondary boot code in the expected location (usually because, as I say, the geometry given was all wrong). Jordan