Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 19:50:31 +0200 From: Emanuel Strobl <Emanuel.strobl@gmx.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Benjamin Sher <delphi123@zebra.net> Subject: Re: After Install -- Where is FreeBSD? Message-ID: <200506201950.42964@harrymail> In-Reply-To: <006601c575be$93ffd460$6401a8c0@dell1> References: <006601c575be$93ffd460$6401a8c0@dell1>
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--nextPart1305727.T84nu2dEER Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Am Montag, 20. Juni 2005 19:36 schrieb Benjamin Sher: > Dear friends: > > I just installed FreeBSD 5.4. I have two primary HD: the first disk > holds WinXP, the second disk now has FreeBSD. > > Well, the good news is that my first install of FreeBSD went perfectly. > I selected ALL for installation of ports and packages so it took a good > hour to install everything from my two CD's. And some of the packages > encountered an error and could not be installed (they told me to look in > the debugger for details). > > Windows XP came through completely unscathed and in perfect working > order on my first primary HD. > > All that's missing now is FreeBSD. After completing my install, I > exited. FreeBSD exited normally, then rebooted. But no sign of FreeBSD. > Instead, Windows came up. I do recall choosing to have a boot manager > but never actually saw the screen and boot-up options. So, I went back > into Free BSD by switching back to the CD in my Bios, but that's as far > as I dare go on my own. What should I do? Am I missing something? You can define the first boot disk in your BIOS (usually) but that's not=20 convenient. You need a bootmanager. WinXP has one, you can dump the loader from the BSD slice and copy it into= =20 a location where the XP loader can read it. Or you can use the FreeBSD BootEays manager, see boot0cfg. I recommend using GAG (http://gag.sourceforge.net/) but grub and similar=20 should also work. =2DHarry P.S.: There's freebsd-questions@ for that kind of questions ;) > > Thank you all so much. > > Benjamin > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --nextPart1305727.T84nu2dEER Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCtwHyBylq0S4AzzwRAj89AKCC3sXMbSkzscDgsdixs1qVoMr4BgCfVgZj tzaFqwmde/Wi2Lyj/O3DLt4= =emcD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1305727.T84nu2dEER--
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