From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 21 14:44:49 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 869FE16A401 for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2006 14:44:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sher07@mindspring.com) Received: from smtpauth04.mail.atl.earthlink.net (smtpauth04.mail.atl.earthlink.net [209.86.89.64]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7938A43D49 for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2006 14:44:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sher07@mindspring.com) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=dk20050327; d=mindspring.com; b=p0aXlTCyi/2zx8RljYbOYDCDXwvwhkQG8xGfbaLhqGcjvnEMKtZYrqXvqqMvil9n; h=Received:Message-ID:Date:From:Reply-To:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:Subject:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:X-ELNK-Trace:X-Originating-IP; Received: from [66.32.69.83] (helo=[192.168.1.101]) by smtpauth04.mail.atl.earthlink.net with asmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1FLi6K-000824-0J for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 21 Mar 2006 09:44:48 -0500 Message-ID: <44201160.50209@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 09:44:48 -0500 From: Benjamin Sher User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: 6d7a96d530d16c3b5e89bb4777695beb69025943178dce0b274f7b0f742124da5d2990e92b388cf3350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 66.32.69.83 Subject: Using boot manager with FreeBSD and Windows X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: delphi123@zebra.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 14:44:49 -0000 Dear friends: [Dell 8200] First, my thanks to everyone who was kind enough to respond to my problem booting up to FreeBSD 6. I did a complete, fresh install from the CD and made sure to also configure the FreeBSD boot manager for MBR. Everything should be working but I still can't boot up. So, I downloaded and installed OSL2000 (latest version: Nov, 2005). It is supposed to boot up as many as 100 OS's. It lists all bootable media, including Windows and FreeBSD. Windows boots up perfectly but when I click on FreeBSD and try to boot it, I get a simple two word error message: "Read error". I would appreciate your explanation and help. Is this a fatal error? How do I solve this problem? Thank you so much. Benjamin