Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 21:19:44 -0500 From: "Paul Missman" <missmanp@adelphia.net> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: FreeBSD and Win 98 - boot problem Message-ID: <000501bd5926$cfe40b20$a70b3018@missmanp.chr.adelphia.net>
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I was running Win95 OSR2 and FreeBSD 2.2.2 (from the Walnut Creek CD) on my computer using the boot selector program provided with FreeBSD. Then I installed Win98 Preview Beta ver 1650. Naturally, it overwrote the boot sector to boot only to Win98. I tried putting the boot program back. I copied the contents of the tools folder from the CD into a directory on my C drive. Then, I ran the bootinst.exe program from that file. After answering yes to both of the questions, it said it had installed the new boot program. Whenever I boot the system, I now get the selection of F1 for DOS (Win98) and F3 for FreeBSD. However, if I hit the F3 key, it responds with F? and does not boot FreeBSD. Thus, the only bootable selection I can make is F1 for Win98, which boots ok. All other function keys return the correct numbers, not F?. But, the only ones pointing to bootables are F1 and F3. Is this some trickery pulled by the Win98 team, or is this the boot program trying to tell me it can't boot the FreeBSD image? Anyone know how to fix this?? Thanks for any help, Paul Missman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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