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From: "Mr. D.C. Swan" <dswan@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: bad boot blocks?
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 17:51:42 +0100
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On 20 Oct 1996, Phil Jensen wrote:

> Hello:
> I'm running 2.1.5-RELEASE on a machine here in the office.  I have a
> NCR 53c825 wide SCSI (ncr0) controller, and two SCSI drives.  For some
> god awful reason -- when I boot the machine, I get the standard choice:
> 
> F1 .. BSD
> F5 .. Disk 2
> 
> I have to press F5, and then I get:
> 
> F1 .. BSD
> F5 .. Disk 1
> 

Sorry no help, but I am running a 2.1.5 system dual booting Windoze and
FreeBSD.  I have 2 EIDE drives.  Using the bootmanager I have a similar
thing :

F1 .. DOS
F5 .. Disk2

On hitting F5 i get

F1 .. BSD
F5 .. Disk1

When I put FreeBSD on a friends system it simply came up with :

F1 .. DOS
F2 .. BSD

using bootmanager.... but he was installing to a partition of his master
drive.... 

No ideas... so any feedback greatly appreciated

Dan