On 30-Jun-99 Thomas Dean wrote:
> I installed -current on a notebook with WINNT on the disk. The
> notebook has the ide disk limitation. So, I chopped the disk do get
> around it. Maybe I should buy a new notebook, but, this one works.
>
> Everything worked OK, except the boot manager. I get:
>
> F1 ??
> F2 FreeBSD
> F3 ??
> F4 FreeBSD
>
> Pressing F1 boots WINNT, F2 boots FreeBSD. The other partitions are
> not bootable.
>
> The disk slices are:
> 1. 400MB WINNT NTFS
> 2. 120 FreeBSD /, swap, and /var
> 3. 600MB WINNT NTFS
> 4. 960MB FreeBSD /usr
>
> FDISK recognizes the partition as NTFS, etc.
>
> How do I get something other than ?? for F1 and lose F3 and F4?
>
> tomdean
You could try OS-BS (available on CD 1 in the tools/ dir or via ftp at
pub/FreeBSD/tools from any mirror). It's much prettier and configurable, IHMO,
than BootEasy.
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