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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: boot manager ignored -help ?
Date: 18 Aug 1995 11:07:56 +0200
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Jim <jimm@dcd.wa.gov.au> wrote:

>I have just installed FreeBSD 2.0.5 on the second drive in my computer.
>Boot manager was installed so that I can choose between my DOS6 C drive
>and FreeBSD D drive.  However, when I boot, the bootmanager is ignored
>and the system always comes up as DOS.

Since the BIOS doesn't boot of the second drive, you have to install a
boot manager on the first hard disk.
-- 
cheers, J"org                      private:   joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
                                   http://www.sax.de/~joerg/

Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)