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From: Paul Newhouse <pimin@diac.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Installation Problem (2 hard disks with Win95 & FreeBSD)
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 1996 00:04:05 -0700
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J Wunsch wrote:
> that you want a boot manager. This way, it will be placed on both
> disks which is necessary to toggle between them.
Are you sure you want it on both disks? I had a real problem with that
(ok it was a while back) when I selected the second disk (both NetBSD)
it loaded the boot manager which asked again F1 or F5 ... ad nausea until
you select F1 which booted correctly. I removed the boot manager from
the second disk and could then select which kernel I wanted.
BTW - I also found that when I added a third bootable disk that selecting
wd(2,a)/netbsd
didn't work because the code in sys.c (hmmm it's been awhile but, I think
that's the module) checked for
if ("0" thru "9")
decode the code the digit
if (0 || 1)
boot the requested disk
else
error message
Notice "wd(X,a) /kernel" doesn't work AND doesn't get an error message!!
Enjoy,
Paul