From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 6 12:25:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hole.noc.iafrica.com (hole.noc.iafrica.com [196.31.1.191]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E421814F9B for ; Sat, 6 Nov 1999 12:25:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robh@hole.noc.iafrica.com) Received: from robh (helo=localhost) by hole.noc.iafrica.com with local-smtp (Exim 3.03 #1) id 11kCOn-0001C8-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 06 Nov 1999 22:25:21 +0200 Date: Sat, 6 Nov 1999 22:25:21 +0200 (SAT) From: Rob Hunter X-Sender: robh@hole.noc.iafrica.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: problem with dual boot Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi I have a machine running Win98. I've got a 20 gig ide drive in it. I'm having difficulties getting FreeBSD booted after installing (3.3-RELEASE). I'm installing from cdrom. This is what my partitions look like: part 1: fat32 (win98 installed - 4 gig) part 2: non-dos (3.5gig) this is where I'm installing FreeBSD part 3: fat32 (12 gig) I manage to finish the installation, and then ask it to install FreeBSD's default boot manager. After this, I get my 2 options when booting, and am told to press F3 to boot FreeBSD. I hear an audible beep when pressing this, and the only key that does anything is F1 (Win98). I've tried installing os-bs and end up with the same. I've tried changing active id tag's too. I've also tried letting it modify the start id automatically upon booting. No matter what, I can't get it to boot my bsd partition :( Any suggestions? Please reply to me personally as I'm not on freebsd-questions. Thanks --Rob One Unix to rule them all, One Resolver to find them, One IP to bring them all and in the zone to bind them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message