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From: "Paul M. Newhouse" <pimin@a.crl.com>
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Subject: Re: BOOTEASY won't boot 2nd hard drive
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 21:20:53 +0000
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James Falkner wrote:
>
> I set up the booteasy, and reinstalled freebsd as the 2nd drive on the
> controller, with the win95 drive the 1st. So now win95 boots great, but
> when I press F5 to switch to the boot manager on the 2nd disk (the freebsd
> one) and then press F1 to boot freebsd, it doesn't boot. Just repompts me:
>
> F1 FreeBSD
> F5 Disk 1
>
> I *KNOW* FreeBSD will boot as the 2nd hard drive because if I stick the
> install bootable floppy into the floppy drive, and type wd(1.a)/kernel at
> the boot prompt it boots it just fine. Also if I install the freebsd disk
> as the only disk in the system it begins booting (and understandibly has
> major errors since it is supposed to be the 2nd drive in the system, but
> it DOES begin booting). I know I'm close to cracking this case wide open,
> but I need some help from the experts around here :)
I found this annoying as well. It sounds like you have booteasy on the second disk?
I couldn't get that to work eaither even though all the info I could get hold of
said it should.
If you have boot easy on the second disk, I recommend:
Boot BSD with your boot floppy. (Don't throw the floppy away!!! *8^) Ever!)
Run disklabel -B wd2. (This reinstalls the normal boot records.)
Now it should work.
Good luck,
Paul