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From: dpunjabi@nyx.cs.du.edu (DINESH PUNJABI)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,muc.lists.freebsd.questions
Subject: Associating F key to boot from 2nd drive. How ?
Date: 15 Mar 1997 16:33:26 -0700
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
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I have a PC that can dual boot Win95 and FreeBSD. Win95
occupies the entire Primary IDE drive (C:). FreeBSD is
installed on the 2nd drive (a 1G SCSI).

When the machine boots, I get the option to choose
F1(DOS) or F5(BSD). The problem is that if I choose
F5, I get a boot prompt. I have to type 1:sd(0,a)/kernel
every single time I boot into FreeBSD. If I dont 
do this, it contiues to boot on its own, gets
into some kind of an error and tries to reboot
again. 

I DID install the boot manager on both the IDE drive
and the SCSI drive. 

Is there some way I can set up a shortcut F-key that
will effectively boot from the 2nd drive (meaning
be the equivalent of typing the 1:sd(0,a)/kernel 
command) ?

Your detailed email instructions on how to accomplish
this will be highly appreciated !

Rgds

Dinesh
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Dinesh Punjabi 
dpunjabi@nyx.cs.du.edu                Work: (303)-624-9812