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From: nickel@prz.tu-berlin.de (Juergen Nickelsen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: MBR problems :(
Date: 24 Jan 1995 22:02:25 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
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In article <3ff1rs$mq9@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu
(Bill Paul) writes:

[to Charles E. Youse (cyouse@axposf.pa.dec.com), who wrote about the
 boot manager not accepting his keystrokes.]

> Well let's see here: it's telling you that to boot FreeBSD, you should
> press 'F1.' Did you try pressing the 'F1' key?

There is *no* need to flame anybody here. I had exactly the same
problem, except that it offered me the choice between F1 for FreeBSD
and F5 for the second disk. F1 did not work, F5 did.

(And since I have FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 on the second disk, I could still
boot from the first disk thanks to the known bug in its boot loader,
which boots always from the first disk.)

-- 
Juergen Nickelsen