Re: 5.3-beta3 boot manger show stopper problem

2004-09-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Richard Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Speaking of which... Where exactly are the text strings for F1, F2, F3, F4 stored? FAQ: How do I change the boot prompt from ??? to something more meaningful? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#CHANGING-BOOTPROMPT

Re: 5.3-beta3 boot manger show stopper problem

2004-09-09 Thread Mark
On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 02:58:02PM -0400, fbsd_user wrote: MS/Windows98 is first partition with 30% of 10 gig IDE hard drive. This booted and worked as expected. Downloaded 5.3-beta3 miniinstall.iso using my Freebsd server box, ran md5 and verified correct hash with checksum.md5 file.

Re: 5.3-beta3 boot manger show stopper problem

2004-09-09 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 09 Sep Mark wrote: I had something like this happen a few times from my mistakes and found that gag bootloader will install and boot or recover both os. In my case, GAG did install, the OS'ses could be added, but after choosing one (windows i.e.) the machine hang like it did before ;-)

Re: 5.3-beta3 boot manger show stopper problem

2004-09-09 Thread Richard Lynch
Mark wrote: MS/Windows98. After F1 key win98 boot just hung there doing nothing. Forgive me if this is silly, but... In *MY* setup, F1 points to a teeny tiny partition that Windows XP Home Edition created with, err, looks like some kind of boot-strapping stuff in it. And *F2* is what gets me

RE: 5.3-beta3 boot manger show stopper problem

2004-09-09 Thread Mark Rowlands
Where exactly are the text strings for F1, F2, F3, F4 stored? Now that I know what's what, it's no big deal, but the anal/retentive part of me wants to label F2 suitably. http://gag.sourceforge.net/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list