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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!uknet!sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk!warwick!lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk!hgmp.mrc.ac.uk!tin!dswan 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 Organization: MRC Human Genome Resource Centre Lines: 41 Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.94.961021174820.9983A-100000@tin> References: <54d91k$fe@ns2.qnis.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: tin.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Sender: dswan@tin In-Reply-To: <54d91k$fe@ns2.qnis.net> 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