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Subject: the multi-boot stuff doesn't work except for perfect installs
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>Number:         67
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       It took 20 tries to get free-bsd installed
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    core
>State:          closed
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Dec 18 05:40:01 1994
>Closed-Date:    Tue Feb 6 22:11:09 PST 1996
>Last-Modified:  Tue Feb  6 22:12:03 PST 1996
>Originator:     
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.0-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
Idiom Consulting
>Environment:

	Motherboard     Intel Premier/PCI II AA622998-206
	CPU             Intel Pentium 90
	PCI SCSI        ?? NCR53c810
	RAM 		32MB: 2x 4x36 70ns
	DISK            SEGATE ST32550N (2GB low power barracuda)
	ETHERNET        3COM Etherlink III 3c509
	VIDEO           ATI Ultra Pro | #9 GXE64Pro 1600

>Description:

	Most of the times I tried to install FreeBSD 2.0, when it got to
	the point of booting off the hard disk, it would ask:

	>> F1 . . . FreeBSD
	>>
	>> Default: F?

	The problem is that at this prompt, nothing works.  You
	can't type anything except CTRL-ALT-DELETE.


	I suspect I don't understand what's going on. :-)  When things
	work, I'm not given a choice of slices.

>How-To-Repeat:

	Use the boot floppy.  Don't assign everything in one pass.
	Assign to exsiting partitions.

	I'm not really sure.  It happened fairly consistently for 
	me until I leared to delete all slices and partitions and
	then add them all back each time I ran the install.

>Fix:
	

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: pst 
State-Changed-When: Tue Feb 6 22:11:09 PST 1996 
State-Changed-Why:  
Likely a BIOS boot translation problem, in any case, this hasn't 
been reported with 2.1 or later. 
>Unformatted:


