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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!swrinde!emory!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!startide.ctr.columbia.edu!wpaul From: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: MBR problems :( Date: 17 Jan 1995 00:09:31 GMT Organization: Columbia University Center for Telecommunications Research Lines: 51 Message-ID: <3ff1rs$mq9@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> References: <D2IGFx.H8z@serval.net.wsu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: startide.ctr.columbia.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Daring to challenge the will of the almighty Leviam00se, Charles E. Youse (cyouse@axposf.pa.dec.com) had the courage to say: : I feel like a dolt. Just wait: it'll get worse. : Anyway, i'm a recent FreeBSD convert, I just got the 2.0 release and : (after just littl edifficulty) got it up and running. The problem is, I don't : understand the loader installed on the MBR. I can boot from the distribution : boot floppy, and tell it to boot device wd(0,a), but that's a pain in the butt. : The MBR on the hard drive boots up and says... : f1. FreeBSD : Default: F? : Which seems to make sense, but no matter what I press, or do, the system just : repeats and repeats the prompt. Well let's see here: it's telling you that to boot FreeBSD, you should press 'F1.' Did you try pressing the 'F1' key? : What am I missing here? For the most part (and not to start a flame war) I'm : impressed. This is coming from a guy who's been with Linux since 0.98. . . :) What you're missing is the documentation for booteasy. On my system, I have a FreeBSD partition and a DOS partition, so in my menu I can select either F1 or F2. Normally, booteasy will remember what your choice was from your previous boot and it will use that as a default: if you don't press any keys, it'll automatically boot from this saved selection. However, immediately after you've installed it for the first time, the 'saved selection from the last boot' hasn't been initialized yet, so you have to choose something manually or it'll cycle forever. So press F1 already!!! Sheesh. -Bill -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~T~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -Bill Paul (212) 854-6020 | System Manager Work: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu | Center for Telecommunications Research Home: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu | Columbia University, New York City ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Møøse Illuminati: ignore it and be confused, or join it and be confusing! ~~~~~~~~ FreeBSD 2.1.0-Development #0: Fri Jan 13 22:04:07 EST 1995 ~~~~~~~~~